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Africa Glen

Post by shipstamps » Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:59 pm


African Glen
Cargo built Moore Drydock Co., 1945 for Farrell Lines, New York. 6117Gt. L459’6” Acc 12 passengers. Formerly named GOLDEN RACER. Liberia SG730,751

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Re: Africa Glen

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:31 am

Built as a cargo vessel under yard No 288 by Moore Dry Dock Co. Oakland, California for the U.S. War Shipping Administration, San Francisco.
29 September 1944 launched as the GOLDEN RACER, one of the C2-S-B1 design.
Tonnage 6.116 grt, 3.513 net, 9.150dwt, dim. 139.9 x 19.2m., length bpp. 132.6m.
Powered by two steam turbines geared to one shaft, manufactured by General Electric Co., Lynn, 6.600 shp, speed 15.5 knots.
Accommodation for 12 passengers.
February 1945 completed.

1947 Sold to the Farrell Lines, New York and renamed in AFRICAN GLEN.
Used by the company in her liner service from America to West Africa.

During a voyage from Saigon to the USA became she one of the vessels trapped in the Suez Canal by the Israel/Egyptian war of June 1967. She was one of the 16 vessels trapped in the Suez Canal during that war.
Detained in the Bitter Lakes, she became a constructive total loss (CTL) she lay there at anchor till the war resumed in 1973.
16 October 1973, the AFRICAN GLEN sank after she was hit by Israeli shells and rockets during cross-canal fighting, only her masts and funnel were seen above water.
September 1977 was she refloated by the Suez Canal Authorities and she came at anchor in the Great Bitter Lake.
November 1979 still there at anchor, fate unknown.

Source From America to United States by Sawyer and Mitchell. Watercraft Philately. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Modern Shipping Disasters 1963-1987 by Norman Hooke

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