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