Name: EMPIRE AID
Launched: 27/11/1943
Completed: 17/04/1944
Builder: Clelands (Successors) Ltd, Willington Quay
Yard Number: 69
Dimensions: 485grt, 40nrt, 135.0 x 30.0 x 16.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (16.5, 27 & 46 x 30ins)
Engines By: George Clark (1938) Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 169180
History:
1944 Ministry of War Transport (Overseas Towage & Salvage Ltd, managers), Newcastle
1946 Ministry of Transport
1952 Overseas Towage & Salvage Co Ltd; renamed MARINIA
1954 Kuwait Oil Co Ltd, London; renamed HUDA
1965 Hussain Hassan Deeb, Kuwait
1967 Broken up
Comments: Englishman/Larch Class
1967: Broken up at Basrah, Iraq

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