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SS Sugar Transporter (1957)

Coordinates: 58°48′N 20°21′E / 58.800°N 20.350°E / 58.800; 20.350
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SS Sugar Transporter
History
Name
  • Sugar Transporter (1957–1966)
  • MALMI (1966–1979)
Owner
  • Silvertown Services Shipping Co. Ltd (1957–1966)
  • Etaliä - Snomen Laiva O/Y (1966–1979)
BuilderHall, Russell & Company
Yard number859
Launched21 November 1957
Sponsored byMrs J.F.P. Tate
IdentificationOfficial number:187743
FateSank 1979
General characteristics
Tonnage6,550 GT
Length370 ft (110 m)
Beam53 ft (16 m)
Depth28 ft (8.5 m)

SS Sugar Transporter was a cargo ship built by Hall, Russell & Company and launched on 21 November 1957. It 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]

References

  1. ^ "Sugar Transporter". Aberdeen Built Ships. Retrieved 21 February 2013.

58°48′N 20°21′E / 58.800°N 20.350°E / 58.800; 20.350