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General cargo ship Welsh City, on charter to Koninklijke Nederlandse Stoomboot-Maatschappij (KNSM)(place & date unknown)
Owner: Sir William Reardon Smith & Co. Ltd., Cardiff
Flag: British
Port of registry: Bideford
Builder: Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd, Govan (Hull-837)
Gross tons: 10,790
Deadweight: 16,233
Length overall: 152,25 m
Max. draft: 9.11 m
Engines: 2 x 9-cylinder diesels geared to single shaft, 9,000 b.h.p., by Ruston & Hornsby Ltd., Lincoln (later replaced by 2 x Pielstick diesels at IHI, Aioi, Japan)
Service speed: 16 knots
Completed July 1968
Sold 1977 to Pearl Star Maritime S.A., Panama, renamed “Jade Star”
Sold 1991 or 1992 (sources differ), renamed “Long Phu” (Maltese flag)
Sold May 1992 for scrapping at Alang, India.
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