S. E. CALVERT
Built | 1906 |
Type | Cargo Ship, turret deck |
Tonnages | 4691 grt, 2971 nrt |
Length / beam / draft | 403.9 x 51.6 x 24.5 ft |
Shipbuilder (yard number) | Wm. Doxford & Sons, Sunderland (355) |
Engine Builder | Wm. Doxford & Sons, Sunderland |
Engine | T3cyl (26, 43, 70 x 48in), 339 nhp |
O.N. | 120926 |
Owners | 1906 Astral Shipping Co. (Jos. Chadwick & Son), Liverpool as DRUMCONDRA |
1913 Possehl & Co., Lubeck; renamed LUBECK | |
1915 Nordisches Erzkontor GmbH, Stettin | |
1919 The Shipping Controller (Turner, Brightman & Co.), London | |
1921 Calvert S.S Co. Ltd. (J. S. Calvert), Goole; renamed S. E. CALVERT | |
1924 Ditta Luigi Pittaluga Vapori, Genoa; renamed AQUITANIA | |
1927 M. Maresca, Genoa; renamed MAR GLAUCO | |
06/1940 laid up at Philadelphia, 03/1941 detained | |
12/09/1941 requisitioned by U.S.A. government | |
1941 U.S. Maritime Commission, Panama flag; renamed MOKATAM | |
04/1943 chartered to U.S. Army, used for storage at Morotai | |
27/02/1944 damaged by Japanese air attack, temporary repairs | |
01/1946 laid up at Stockton, New South Wales | |
Fate |
1949 to R. Cunningham & H. Sutherland and cut down to tank top at Stockton, N.S.W., remains beached as landfill on 16 August 1950 at South Arm, Hunter River, N.S.W. |
Photos from collection of Clive Ketley
and below from the late Dennis Farrar
also from collection of Dennis Farrar