No.438 Almeda launched in 1926

12,838grt for Blue Star Line from Cammell Laird, Birkenhead

Almeda Star 1929 Blue Star Line

Torpedoed by U 96 off the Hebrides in 1941

Image attribution: Rick Andrews & Ross Robson via bluestarline.org

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No.439 Llandaff Castle launched in 1926

10,786grt for Union-Castle Line from Workman Clark, Belfast

Torpedoed by U 177 of Mozambique in 1942

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No.868 Saxonia launched in 1954

21,637grt for Cunard Line by John Brown, Clydebank

Carmania 1962 Cunard Line

Leonid Sobinov 1973 Soviet State Shipping

Scrapped Alang 1999

Image attribution: Peter Fitzpatrick, Michael Robertson & Mike Cornwall

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No.865 Munkedal launched in 1953 – Originally a tanker

11,674grt for Munkedals A/B from Götaverken, Gothenburg

Heleanna 1966 C.S. Efthymiadis

Scrapped La Spezia 1974 after a fire at Brindisi

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No.864 Badger Mariner launched in 1953

14,138grt for US Maritime Commission from Sun SB & DD Co, Chester

Atlantic 1957 American Banner Line

Universe Campus 1971 CY Tung Group

Universe 1976 CY Tung Group

Arrived at Alang on April 6th, 1996

Masato Nishiguchi at Kobe

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No.180 Deseado launched in 1911

11,477grt for Royal Mail Lines from Harland & Wolff, Belfast

Scrapped in Japan 1934

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No.179 Arlanza launched in 1911

15,044grt for Royal Mail Lines from Harland & Wolff, Belfast

Scrapped in Blyth 1938

Image attribution: Steve Walker Color

Olympic, Arlanza & Empress of Britain at Southampton in the early 1930s

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No.178 Medina launched in 1911

12,350grt for P & O Line from Caird, Greenock

Torpedoed by UB 31 off Devon 1917

Between November 1911 and February 1912 Medina took King George V and Queen Mary to India for the Delhi Durbar.

Allen C. Green Series
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No.177 Indrapura launched in 1911

10,286grt for Indra Line by Swan Hunter & Wigham, Richardson, Newcastle

Port Adelaide 1916 Commonwealth & Dominion

Torpedoed by U 81 off Fastnet 1917

David Little collection

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No.176 Talthybius launched in 1911

10,224grt Blue Funnel Line from Scott’s, Greenock

Taruyasu Maru 1942 Japan

Empire Evenlode 1947 Ministry of War Transport

Scrapped in Briton Ferry 1949

An interesting history, sank in Singapore and raised by the Japanese, later mined, sank and raised by the British.

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