Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship: CITY OF LUCKNOW ( 1946-1963 General cargo liner 500 feet long of Ellerman Lines Ltd, London)

Port of Registry: London
Net Tonnage: 5485.58
Reg Tonnage: -
Gross Tonnage: 9972.38
Deadweight Tonnage: -

Ron Stringer has kindly supplied the following details of "City of Lucknow" voyages and particulars.

City of Lucknow

Owner : Ellerman Lines Ltd., London
Manager : Hall Line, Liverpool
Builder : Wm. Denny & Bros., Ltd., Dumbarton
Built : May, 1946
Registered : London
Length : 500’ 00”
Beam : 64’ 04”
Draught : 29’ 98”
Tonnage : 9,972.38 gross, 5,485.58 net
Official No. : 181017
Radio Call : GDSP
Engines : 3 x steam turbines, single screw
H.P. : 8,880
Speed : 16 knots
Fuel : Oil
Passengers : Nil (accommodation for 12 passengers converted for 25 apprentices in 1959)
Sister Ships : City of Khartoum, City of Swansea, City of Poona, City of Carlisle
Fate : 1963. Sold to W.H. Eddie Hsu, Taiwan & Renamed “Lisboa”, Panama reg.
March 1971. Sold and delivered to Taiwan shipbreakers at Kaohsiung.