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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
¾ Starboard stern view of M.V. KRONPRINSEN at Cardiff Docks.
Launched 1942 as EMPIRE FAIRBAIRN, but completed as KRONPRINSEN by Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd., Glasgow (3-cylinder diesel engine by shipbuilder), for the Norwegian Government in exile, and managed by Nortraship. 1945 – Sold to A/S/ Rudolf, Oslo, managed by Olsen & Ugelstad, Oslo. 1952 – Sold to Rios Societe Navigazione SA, Panama, and renamed VORI. 1953 – Sold to Cia. Nav. Porto Alegre, Panama, but retained her name. She was re-registered at Syra, Greece in 1961. 1967 – Sold to Liminship Cia. Nav., Piraeus, and renamed LUKIA M, managed by L.G. Matsas. She sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Yellow Sea in February 1969, then towed on to Shanghai, where she was seized by the Chinese government and is assumed to have been broken up. (ref : - mariners-l.co.uk/EmpireF.html)(wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Fairbairn
