Engineering:SS Sugar Transporter (1957)
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| Builder: | Hall, Russell & Company |
| Yard number: | 859 |
| Launched: | 21 November 1957 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs J.F.P. Tate |
| Identification: | Official number: 187743 |
| Fate: | Sank 1979 |
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| Length: | 370 ft (110 m) |
| Beam: | 53 ft (16 m) |
| Depth: | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
SS Sugar Transporter was the title of a cargo ship built by Hall, Russell & Company and launched on 21 November 1957. Its construction was sponsored by the wife of Mr. J. F. P. Tate, a director of Silvertown Services Shipping Company Ltd. In 1966, the ship's name was changed to Malmi under new owners from Helsinki, Finland . On 6 December 1979, during a voyage from Gdańsk, Poland to Koverhar, Malmi capsized and sank in the Baltic Sea, 40 nautical miles (46 miles; 74 km) northeast of Gotska Sandön, when her cargo of coke shifted in heavy weather.[1]
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