Portuguese cargo liner HUAMBO, imo1144618/ 121,6m/ 4.148gt/ 1xtriple expansion Flensburger Schiffsbau, 3cyl., 2.800Ihp, 10kn/ 12 pax; 03/1920 completed by Flensburger Schiffsbau AG, Flensburg, as POLARIA for The Shipping Controller, London, as war reparations; 1921 PORTHIA, Porthia Steamship Co., Ltd, mgrs R. H. Read, St. Ives, GBR; 1927 WAMERU, Woermann Linie AG, Hamburg; 1939 interned somewhere in Portuguese Africa port, due outbreak of WW2; 1943 HUAMBO, bought after negotiations between Portugal with British and Germans; 05/1950 arrived Genoa for breaking up.
Seen showing neutral ship marks.
Photographer unknown ? collection F. Cabral, Oporto. |
Rui Amaro
