The Strange Tale of the Elliott's Ship
 

Jack Keyte explains in the spring 1958 School Magazine
 
Here is an update in the Christmas 1959 Magazine
 
 
Ships Details

Built: 1957 by Furness Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Haverton Hill-on-Tees.
Tonnage: 16, 275g, 9, 473n, 24, 950 dwt.
Engines: Single Screw, 2 x Richardson and Westgarth Steam Turbines Double
Reduction Geared, 8, 200 SHP. 14 Knots.
Launched on the 29th April 1957, completed on the 29th November 1957. YardNo. 476.

She arrived at Spezia, Italy on the 14th March 1967 for conversion to a Bulker by Industria Navali Meccaniche Affini. She was sold to the Pacific Tradition Navigation Corporation of Panama on the 2nd December 1976 and renamed Concord Apollo. She was sold to Taiwanese breakers in 1978 and work commenced at Kaohsiung, Taiwan on the 20th of September 1978.

See Merchant Navy Officers
 

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