12,464grt for US Navy by Western Pipe & Steel Co, San Francisco

Barnes 1941 US Navy

Attacker 1942 Royal Navy

Castel Forte 1952 Sitmar

Fairsky 1958 Fairline Shipping Corp (Sitmar)

Destroyed by fire 1980, scrapped Hong Kong

USS Barnes/HMS Attacker

Castel Forte, being converted to Fairsky

Fairsky in Aden 1964, before the funnel extension was added – my collection

Fairsky of Sitmar Destroyed by fire 1980, scrapped Hong Kong. Image: Mike Cornwall