Ship Details

Fort Buckingham

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Registry #1 168436 (UK) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1943 Fort Buckingham Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1943 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 424.7' x 57.2' x 34.9'
Builder Burrard Drydock Co. Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 7130 Type 1 Freighter, (North Sands-type)
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 2500ihp triple expansion 3-cylinder Dominion steam reciprocating engine Engine Manufacture Dominion Engineering Works Ltd., Montreal PQ
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1943 she was owned by the Ministry of War Transport (managed by J. Constantine SS Line), London UK. In 1943 she was chartered by US Wartime Shipping Administration on bare-boat charter to the Ministry of War Transport, London UK (Joseph Constantine S.S. Line Ltd., mgrs.).
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1944-01-20
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
On January 20, 1944 this vessel was torpedoed and sunk by U.188 in 08.19N 66.40E on voyage Bombay - Durban & Buenos Aires off the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean.
 
References
Heal, S.C. (1999); Lloyd's Register of Shipping;
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