NORBY

The Finish Steamer NORBY; 100,9m/3.123gt/9 knots; 04/1922 completed by Les Ateliers de La Seine Maritime, Le Trait, as CAPITAINE PRIEUR for French Government, Paris; 15/07/1922 s/n, Sté. Anon. Armateurs Français, Le Havre; 1929 s/n, Union Industrielle et Maritime, Le Havre; 06/1940, blockade by Germans at Bordeaux; 1943 bombed and sank in two occasions by Allied air raids at Toulon: 06/12/1943 refloated: 08/1944 scuttled by Germans and sank; 05/10/1944 refloated and sent to Marseilles; 1945 completely rebuilt showing a new guise; 10/03/1951 NORBY, Inio rederi A/B, Helsinki; 1959 NARBI, Pohjolan Hoypylaiva OY, Helsinki; 1969 s/n, Ilmar Tuuli, Helsinki; 1964 FANEROMENI, Tzavariis Petsagourakis, Greece; 12/11/1969 aground at Levitha Island, Greece; 1970 arrived Perama for breaking up.
Seen inbound Leixões in the 50Â’s.
(C) Foto Mar, Leixões