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¾ Port bow view of S.S. LINARIA at Cardiff Docks.

S.S. LINARIA. Laid down as EMPIRE PITCAIRN for MoWT, but completed 1944 for the Admiralty as Fleet Air Arm maintenance ship HMS MORAY FIRTH (Pennant No. F62) by J. Readhead & Sons Ltd., South Shields. She was commissioned in November 1945. 1947 – Sold to Stag Line and converted for commercial use to 7333gt by Tyne Dock Engineering Co Ltd. She was renamed LINARIA., and managed by J. Robinson & Sons Ltd. 1954 – Sold to Chellew Navigation Co., London and renamed ESKGLEN., managed by H.M. Lund, London. 1956 – Owners restyled Esk Shipping Co Ltd., (no change of name). 1961 – Sold to Fortune Shipping Co., Hong Kong, and renamed MARINE FORTUNE. Later that year she was re-sold to Herald Shipping Co Ltd., Hong Kong (no name change). She was broken up at Yokosuka, Japan in 1967. (ref : - wikipedia)(TyneBuiltShips.co.uk)(shipsnostalgia.com)