Vessel

Built

Tonnage

Official No

Ship Builder

Engine Builder

Engine Type

HP

Screws

Swazi

1927

247

1499937

W J Yarwood & Son

Nortwich

W J Yarwood & Son

Nortwich

Compound

Steam

80 NHP

1

Swazi


Career Summary

23.7.1927: Launched by W.J. Yarwood & Son Ltd., Nortwich (yard No.345) for Thesen's Steamship Co. Ltd., Cape Town.

1931: Sold with the Company to Mitchell, Cotts & Compny Ltd., London.

1935: Mitchell, Cotts & Co. (South Africa) Ltd., appointed as managers.

1949: Sold with Company to Coast Lines Ltd., Liverpool. and Coast Lines Africa (Pty) Ltd., Cape Town appointed as managers.

1953: Renamed SWAZI COAST.

1958: Laid up for disposal during a period of low scrap prices.

According to Lloyds Register records she was taken over by the South African Military and expended as a target of Cape Town.

Shelled by a warship and bombed by a Shackleton aircraft

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