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Name: SUTHERLAND
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 03/03/1938
Completed: 05/1938
Builder: J Readhead & Sons Ltd
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 512
Dimensions: 5083grt, 2953nrt, 423.7 x 56.7 x 24.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (25, 42 & 71 x 48ins), 524nhp
Engines by: J Readhead & Sons Ltd, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 165762
History:
22/04/1938 BJ Sutherland & Co, Newcastle
1939 Clydesdale Navigation Co Ltd (G Nisbet & Co, managers); renamed BLAIRCLOVA
1961 Pan-Norse Steamship Co SA, Panama; renamed OCEAN VENTURE
01/09/1962 Wrecked
Comments: 01/09/1962: Wrecked, in a typhoon, on the north side of Harbour Island, Tolo, Hong Kong
Subsequently broken up


Above photo as SUTHERLAND is courtesy of Clive Ketley

Above photo as BLAIRCLOVA is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as BLAIRCLOVA is courtesy of Richard Cox