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PORT VINDEX
PORT VINDEX
Company: Port Line
10,480 tons
524'x 68'
Spd.:16 knots Motorship,twin screw 11,000hp
Built Tyne[Swan Hunter]
Laid down as Port Line cargo liner,but completed in 1943 as H.M.S. VINDEX,escort-type aircraft carrier.Served on Russian covoys,and in Nort Atlantic ans Far East.
Returned to Port Line in 1947 and rebuilt as cargoliner PORT VINDEX[as shown],entering commercial service in 1949
Trade Britain to Australia & New Zealand
538,000 cu.ft. regrigerated space
12 passengers
Scrapped 1971
Sister:
PORT VICTOR[completed as aircraft carrier NAIRANA 1944, rebuilt as cargo liner 1949],scrapped 1971
Courtesy/°©A.Duncan

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Added on 26/04/2007
Dimension 800 x 509
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