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Name: SIDI BEL ABBÈS
Type: Passenger Refrigerated Cargo Ship
Launched: 22/04/1948
Completed: 02/1949
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1852
Dimensions: 5226grt, 2614nrt, 2090dwt, 402.3 x 53.6 x 27.0ft
Engines: 6 x Steam turbines, SR geared
Engines by: CA Parsons & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 19.5knots
Reg Number: n/a
History:
02/1949 Soc Générale de Transports Maritimes à Vapeur, Marseilles
1963 Hellenic Mediterranean Lines Ltd, Piraeus; renamed APOLLONIA
1988 Renamed PRECIOUS
09/07/1988 Broken up
Comments: Laid down for Cie de Navigation Mixte as PRESIDENT DE CAZALET
Built for the Mediterranean services of France to Morocco, Tunisia & Algeria
Accommodation for 606 x passengers plus 50 x cars
09/07/1988: Arrived at Alang for breaking up by Arya Steel


Above photo as SIDI BEL ABBÈS is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as SIDI BEL ABBÈS is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as SIDI BEL ABBÈS is courtesy of Derek Longly

Above photo as APOLLONIA is courtesy of Richard Turnwald

Above photo as APOLLONIA is copyright of Paul Strathdee