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S.S. ROSEMOOR, glass negative
Starboard Broadside view of S.S. ROSEMOOR.
Built 1942/43 as EMPIRE ROSALIND by Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd., Burntisland for MoWT, managed by W. Runciman & Co., Newcastle. 1949 – Sold to W. Runciman & Co., and renamed ROSEMOOR. 1952 – Sold to W.H. Schlieker AG, Hamburg, and renamed HELGA. 1956 – Sold to August Bolten, Hamburg, and renamed HELGA BOLTEN. 1959 – Sold to Krupp-Seeschiffahrt, Bremen, and renamed SOLLINGEN. 1960 – Sold to Overseas Shipping Co., Panama, and renamed MAR FELIZ, managed by Mariner Shipping Co Ltd., Hong Kong. She ran aground in the Straat Kidjang, Indonesia, in September 1960, damaging her keel. Although she sailed on to Singapore – then to Hong Kong for repairs – she was however broken up at Hong Kong later that year. (ref – wikipedia : mariners- list