Mersea Island Museum - Blackwater Ships


Ship:      PORT VICTOR
Arrived:8 May 1931
Departed:3 February 1932
Arrived 2:12 September 1933
Departed 2:12 December 1933
Arrived 3:25 July 1935
Departed 3:7 November 1935
Career:Built as MURITAI, renamed PORT VICTOR-1916. Broken up Bo'ness 10 November 1935.
From Oyster Company ledger.
- 6 November 1935 Owner/agent Thos. Ward, Sheffield.
- 7 November 1935 sailed.

Mid Essex WSS - Lloyds List: arrived 8 May 1931 sailed 3 Feb 1932 arrived 12 Sep 1933 sailed 12 Dec 1933 arrived 25 Jul 1935 sailed 7 Nov 1935 for Bo'ness for scrapping.

From British Newspaper Archive
30 Jul 1931, 18 Nov 1932, 22 Aug 1935, 15 Oct 1935 Shields Daily News reports vessel in River.
12 Sep 1933 sailed Gravesend for Tollesbury (Liverpool Journal of Commerce 13 Sep 1933)
21 Jul 1933 PORT VICTOR Shields Daily News reports vessel at Tollesbury (since) 12 Nov 1933
10 Nov 1935 arrived Boness under tow tug QUEEN'S CROSS (Linlithgow Gazette 15 Nov 1935)

"Haven of Rest" by Douglas Gurton lists the vessel but has no further info. See DJG_SHP

Tonnage:7.280 gross
Built:1916
Type:Refrigerated ship
Owner:Commonwealth & Dominion Line
Official No:129099
ID1129099

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