News EventWednesday, August 2, 1961 @ 1000 |
CAPE HOWE (1943-1961 General cargo ship of Lyle Shipping Company, Glasgow) |
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Lyle Shipping Company of Glasgow sell their steamer CAPE HOWE to a Hong Kong Company. |
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The Lyle Shipping Company of Glasgow have announced that they have sold their cargo steamer CAPE HOWE to the Wing Tak Steamship Company of Hong Kong for £105,000. The ship is currently trading in Australian waters and will be delivered to her new owners in September and will be renamed WORLD PINK. CAPE HOWE was built in 1943 by Lithgows Ltd. at Port Glasgow and is a steam-powered general cargo carrying ship of 6,999 gross tons and is 433 feet long and is registered in Glasgow. When she was launched she was owned by Cape of Good Hope Motorship Company Ltd. and managed by Lyle Shipping Company and has remained with Lyle throughout her life. The ship is the second of the Lyle Company to be named CAPE HOWE. The first was sunk in the North Atlantic in 1940 by a German U-boat U-28.
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