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¾ Starboard bow view of S.S. TULLY CROSBY with tug, Cardiff Docks , c. 1948.

S.S. TULLY CROSBY (1791gt). MC-type Liberty ship built 1943 (as TULLY CROSBY) by Butler Shipbuilding Corp., Superior, Wisconsin for US War Sold Shipping Administration. Assigned to MoWT (UK) in 1943, and managed by Stephenson, Clarke Ltd. She was apparently renamed BALTIC JEEP from 1943, but this does not appear so in this c.1947 view. (She was not “paid for” until 1947). 1949 – Sold to A.G. Tsavliris (London) and renamed ALEXANDER T. 1951 – Sold to Jacob Salvesen (Farsund), and renamed SPIND. 1953 – Sold to H.Heitmann & Son (Oslo), and renamed HEILO. 1956 – Sold to Krini Cia. Nav. Ltda., Costa Rica and renamed CAPETAN VASSILIS. 1959 – Sold to Baltia Ltd., of Beirut and renamed CHRISTINA. 1961 – Renamed CAPETAN VASSILIS again. She was on a voyage from Madras to Rotterdam in April 1965, when she was abandoned following a fire in her cargo of sunflower seeds, and subsequently sank about 60 miles off Crete. 1965 - Fire broke out in the #2 hold of the CAPETAN VASSILIS en route from Madras, India, to Rotterdam with a cargo of sunflower seeds while 60 miles off the Mediterranean island of Crete. The crew abandoned the vessel and it sank on April 16. The ship had been built at Superior, WI as TULLY CROSBY in 1944 and returned to the lakes as c) SPIND in 1952-1953, as d) HEILO in 1953 and e) CAPETAN VASSILIS in 1956. Further infromation - http://www.flybridge.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=boating&action=display&thread=274&page=73#ixzz22NXVT2Ie