S.S. Radnor

CAPTAIN JOHN W. STONE, MASTER (Welsh)

Ddetails from the 1960-61 Lloyd's Register:

RADNOR, ex. FORT BUFFALO-1950
Code letters: MAKR Official Number: 168453 (note correct number)
Rigging: steel single screw steamer; 2 decks; fitted with direction finder, echo sounding device & gyro-compass
Tonnage: 7,133 tons gross, 4,246 net and 10,330 tons summer deadweight
Dimensions: 441 ft. 6 in. long, 57 ft. 2 in. beam and holds 27. ft. 8 in.deep
Construction: 1943, North Vancouver Ship Repairs Ltd. in North Vancouver,B.C.;
butts of shell & deck plating electric welded; hatch covers dispensed with in 'tween decks
Propulsion: triple expansion engine with 3 cylinders of 24 1/2, 37 & 70
inches diameter respectively; stroke 48 inches; 3 single ended boilers with superheaters; 9 corrugated furnaces; grate surface 153 sq.ft.;heating surface 7,140 sq. ft.; 505 nominal horsepower;
operating at 220 p.s.i.; engine by John Inglis Co. Ltd. in Toronto
Owners: North River Freighters Ltd. (Ships Finance & Management Co. Ltd.,managers)Port of registry: London

In the 1943-44 edition:
Code letters: BKQL
Owners: Ministry of War Transportation (Turner, Brightman & Co., managers)

In the 1949-50 edition:
Owners: Ministry of War Transportation on bareboat charter from the
Dominion of Canada
(owners); (McCowen & Gross Ltd., managers)

In the 1965-66 edition:
Code letters: SZJM Official Number: 2442
Owners: North River Freighters Ltd.
Port of registry: Piraeus, Greece

The vessel was no longer listed in the 1967-68 edition nor is there any
indication of a
name change. Either she sank or, more likely, was sent to the breakers for
scrapping.

Informationn researched by:

Gilbert Provost
Genealogy, Ships and Wines
http://www.webruler.com/gprovost

Some of the Crew Members on the 1960 voyage to Nagoya, Japan were:

Anton, Joni and Jersey (Polish)

Schultz, Phillipe, Walter and Willie (German)

Pedro, Spanos and Teddy (Greek)

Dixon (French Canadian)