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Name: DPC 100
Launched:
Completed: 11/1943
Builder: American Shipbuilding Co, Buffalo, New York
Yard Number: 923
Dimensions: 176grt, 86.6 x 24.6 x 10.0ft
Engines: Oil engine, 2SA, 8cyl (8.5 x 10ins), 700bhp
Engines By: General Motors Corporation, Detroit
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 305312
History:
11/1943 Defence Plant Corporation, USA
1943 Transferred to the United States Army; renamed ST 768
1949 A/S Danena; registered at Aarhus; renamed KRONOS
1950 Bergen Steamship Company; registered at Bergen
1964 France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear Co Ltd; renamed WHITBURN
1965 Registered at Sunderland
05/1977 Transferred to Lawson-Batey Tugs Ltd
10/1977 Fouad Hassan Hamaza & Sons; registered at Port Said; renamed ABOU SHANAB
2004 Unknown owner, Port Said
2005 Broken up
Comments: 05/1977: Cost £18,000
10/1977: Cost £36,000


Above: The naming of hull no 923 at American Shipbuilding Co

Above photo as KRONOS for A/S Danena copyright of Bent Mikkelsen

Above photo as KRONOS for Bergen Steamship courtesy of Stephen Swinhoe

Above photo copyright of Harold Appleyard

Above photo copyright of Harold Appleyard

Above photo copyright of Michael Green

Above photo copyright of Michael Green

Above photo as ABOU SHANAB copyright of Hans Hoffmann

Above photo as ABOU SHANAB courtesy of Stephen Swinhoe