AZOUR (Cinderella stamp)
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:40 pm
Built under yard No cg3401 as a passenger- cargo vessel by At & Ch de Bretagne at Nantes for Cie de Nav. Paquet of Marseille. Launched under the name AZROU one sister theAZEMMOUR. GRT: 3920; NRT: 2084; DWT: 3235.
Dimensions: 372' 8" x 49' x 22' 8".
2 steam turbines DR geared to sc. shaft; built by builders. 4.700 shp, speed 16 knots. Passenger accommodation for 56 first, 46 second and 100 third class passengers.
Completed in August 1949
Routes: Marseilles, Port-Vendres, Tangier, Casablanca.
Called at Tangier on all return voyages. She was designed to carry large numbers of sheep in the tween decks.
1968 sold to Constantine S. Efthymiadis, Piraeus renamed MELINA.
Broken up at Eleusis in September 1979
Sources: Lloyd's Register 1965 – 1966; Miramar; various internet sites.
Peter Crichton
Dimensions: 372' 8" x 49' x 22' 8".
2 steam turbines DR geared to sc. shaft; built by builders. 4.700 shp, speed 16 knots. Passenger accommodation for 56 first, 46 second and 100 third class passengers.
Completed in August 1949
Routes: Marseilles, Port-Vendres, Tangier, Casablanca.
Called at Tangier on all return voyages. She was designed to carry large numbers of sheep in the tween decks.
1968 sold to Constantine S. Efthymiadis, Piraeus renamed MELINA.
Broken up at Eleusis in September 1979
Sources: Lloyd's Register 1965 – 1966; Miramar; various internet sites.
Peter Crichton