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Name: EMPIRE WINNIE
Launched: 02/09/1943
Completed: 31/12/1943
Builder: Clelands (Successors) Ltd, Willington Quay
Yard Number: 68
Dimensions: 479grt, 34nrt, 136.0 x 30.1 x 15.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (16.5, 27 & 46 x 30ins), 220nhp
Engines by: George Clark (1938) Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 169177
History:
30/12/1943 Ministry of War Transport (William Watkins, managers), London
1946 William Watkins Ltd (JR Watkins, manager), London
1947 Renamed ZEALANDIA
1950 Ship Towage (London) Ltd
1951 Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd, Melbourne
1952 Renamed YUNA
1962 Owner re-styled Adelaide Steamship (Operations) Ltd, Melbourne
1965 Owner re-styled Swan River Shipping Co Ltd, Melbourne
1971 Owner re-styled Adelaide Steamship Industries Pty Ltd, Melbourne
1971 Coral R Rotondella, Australia
1972 MC & A Michela, Australia
1974 Broken up
Comments: Englishman/Larch Class
1951: Sold for £32,000 to Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd
1973: Stripped and reduced to a barge
1974: Broken up by MC & A Michela at Bunbury Harbour, Western Australia


Above photo as ZEALANDIA courtesy of Barney Hunt

Above photo as ZEALANDIA courtesy of David Asprey

Above photo as YUNA courtesy of Richard Cox