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S.S. FAIRWATER (print)
Black and white print showing a full length portrait of ship with white border around.
S.S. FAIRWATER. Built 1942 as EMPIRE AUSTEN by Lithgows Ltd., Port Glasgow, managed for MoWT by Honeyman & Co. 1946 – Management transferred to Counties Ship Management Ltd., London. 1949 – Sold to Frinton Shipping Ltd., and renamed FRINTON, managed by Counties Ship Management. 1951 – Sold to Crest Shipping Co., Nassau, and renamed FREECREST, managed by Ivanovich & Co Ltd., London. 1955 – Sold to International Nav. Corp., Liberia, and renamed FAIRWATER, managed by Tidewater Commercial Co. Inc., Baltimore. 1961 – Sold to Surrendra (Overseas) Private Ltd., Calcutta, and renamed APJ USHA. She was broken up at Bombay in 1962.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
1995.348/20
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Claymore Shipping Co. Ltd.
Association Type: shipping company
Associated Person/Body: Owen, David George (Capt.)
Association Type: associated person
Creation/Production
unknown
Acquisition
Donation, 8/12/1995
Measurements
Length
(mm): 90
Width
(mm): 145
Techniques
black and white (photomechanical)
photomechanical
Material
card
Location
In store
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