Name EMPIRE BOY
Type Tanker
Year 1941
GRT 859 (lengthened 1952, then 963grt)
Engines Steam (aft)
Builder GOOLE SHIPBUILDING & REPAIRING CO. LTD.
At GOOLE
Launch date 25-08-1941
Yard number 361
Owners Ministry of Shipping, London
History 1942 DOORMAN (Dutch Government), 1947 FLANDRIA, Verenigde Tankkustvaart, Netherlands, 1951 ALICE, Ulric Thomas, Germany, 1952 HAMMONIA, Bauermann & Metzendorff, Germany and lengthened from 189 feet to 223 feet and converted to motor tanker, 1954 PETRA, Rex Bauermann (Olea Tankschiff), Hamburg, 1962 ANNY, Vittorio Rossetti, Italy, new engine 1965, 1972 renamed TOSCO.
Fate Broken up at La Spezia in June 1975.

As DOORMAN above

and as PETRA below

and as PETRA at Leixoes on 14/7/1954, photo from Swiss Ships / FotoMar collection

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