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Inverrosa - (1925-1945)
"Inverrosa", stranded at Boca Raton, photo taken, with bad visibility, May 10th 1968.
( Photo by John Finnerty of Brooklyn, NY and Hartford, CT )
Additional Info by Starke & Schell Registers :
INVERROSA - 1925 BR 2 Triple (aft) (10½)
2,372 GRT for Lago Shipping Co., Ltd. (A. Weir & Co.), London 305.7 x 50.2
Tanker built by Harland & Wolff, Ltd., Belfast (4) #700 148577
1936 - owners self-managed
1945 - Esso Transportation Co., Ltd., London
1950 - Trinidad Shipping Co., Ltd., London
1960 - Challenger, Ltd., London [Trinidad Shipping Co., Ltd., Port of Spain]
1962 - converted to ore carrier, re-engined 2M (aft)
1963 - Ortran, Ltd., London [Union Carbide Corp., New York]
Stranded 8 May 1968 off Boca Raton, Florida, refloated 23.05.68 and laid up at Jacksonville, sold 1972 to Geo. J. Hondroulis,
Jacksonville, re-sold successively to Omega Manufactura, S.A., Tampico, and to Astilleros Huasteca, S.A., Tampico, who
broke her up in 1973.