Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship: HECTOR (1950 - 1972 passenger/cargo liner 523 feet long of Alfred Holt's Blue Funnel Line, Liverpool : 1972 scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan)

Port of Registry: Liverpool (England, U.K.)
Net Tonnage: 5,922
Reg Tonnage: -
Gross Tonnage: 10,125
Deadweight Tonnage: -

"H" class steel steamship, operated by Alfred Holt's Blue Funnel Line, normally operated on the UK to Australia service.
Official number 183761.
Launched 27th July 1949 by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, yard number 1377,
Powered by steam turbines, with a single propeller and having a service speed of 18 knots.
Completed 31st March 1950.
On 2nd July 1972 she was delivered to the shipbreakers Sing Cheng Yung Iron and Steel Company, Kaohsiung, Taiwan for demolition.