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Rick Vince [ View profile ]
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Happy Med
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Apr 13, 2024
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Admins, delete or keep, as you see fit, thanks.

Now identified as HAPPY MED.
Originally built for Prince Line Ltd. - Furness, Withy & Co. Ltd., London, England. A Refrigerated cargo carrier.

Launched on 19/10/1936, and completed during December 1936, by William Hamilton & Co., Glen Yard, Port Glasgow, Scotland (426)
1,960 g.t. & 1,035 nrt., as:
'Palestinian Prince' to 1960,
'Happy Med' to 1965, &
'Mimi' until sold to Yugoslavia (Croatia) for demolition.
Arrived at Split on 19/07/1970.


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it is a close up from the original, which can be seen here: https://flic.kr/p/2pHEfY5

Circa 1963-1965, unknown harbour, most probably in the Mediterranean.

A general cargo ship in a protected harbour, it is moored using forward anchors & mooring buoys aft.

Scanned from a slide in the collection of the late Niels Anker Larsen, former Danish Merchant Navy Radio Officer.

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In all the photos I can find SUNNY MED has taller topmasts than HAPPY MED right up til 1964 just before she was sold (see the photo of her on this site taken in 1964). HAPPY MEDs topmasts seem much closer in height to those of the unknown ship (see also photos on this site). Not particularly convincing since topmasts can be changed, but they did have different builders (Furness SB and Wm Hamilton. Its the best I can come up with. I'm not certain how to cross reference to other pics on this site, Sorry! My conclusion is that she is the HAPPY MED, but hard to be 100% certain.

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Thanks Graham for your further research.
I have found photos of both ships, as built, and it appears to me that they both had topmasts of the same height.
SUNNY MED (Syrian Prince) - https://tinyurl.com/Syrian-Prince
HAPPY MED (Palestinian Prince) - https://tinyurl.com/Palestinian-Prince
and that in the photo above, the topmasts have certainly been shortened.
My best attempts at enhancing the image resulted in a possible P in the first word.
For a moment I thought I'd cracked it, as I saw different vents on the foc'sles, but it transpires that both ships were retrofitted with two larger mushroom vents, instead of a single square one.

So, I'm going with HAPPY MED too.
Thanks again for your valuable input :-)

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HAPPY MED ex PALESTINIAN PRINCE. ‘60
built 1936 for the Prince Line by Wm Hamilton.
1965 MIMI, broken up Split 70.

Or SUNNY MED ex SYRIAN PRINCE also built 1936
59 SUNNY MED , 64 DINOS , bu Savona 10.69

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Excellent Graham, thanks so much.
Another busy day today, so, later, I will try to enhance the name as far as possible, to see if any letters are readable.
Much appreciated.

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Good job Graham

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