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Athel Line Ships

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Scottish Heather

Scottish Heather

SCOTTISH HEATHER

ON 160471

Call Sign : GCJR

Registered : London

Built 1928  Sir W.G.Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd., Walker-On-Tyne

For Tankers Ltd., of 37-41 Gracechurch St., London EC3.

The ship was launched on the 5th of March 1928.

442 ft x 57 ft x 33 ft ; single screw; 4Q cylinders; 11 knots

7,087 grt ; 4190 nt ; 11,130 dwt.

Tank capacity : 461,030 cu ft.

Sold to United Molasses December 1941.

1940 November  Bombed North Sea –

     Read the story at Ships of Long Ago

     http://www.shipsoflongago.co.uk/text%20scottish%20heather.htm

M.O.W.T., from April 23, 1940 to March 19, 1946.

1941 management taken over by Athel Line.

1951 Taken into the Athel fleet and renamed ATHELCREST.

29 July 1954 arrived at Blythe for breaking up.

Raymond Forward