SS Fortune
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For other ships with the same name, see SS Albatross and SS Frontier.
Fortune was a Hansa A Type cargo ship which was built as Weserstrom in 1944 by J Cockerill SA, Antwerp, Belgium for Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen, Germany. She was seized as a prize of war in 1945, passing to the Ministry of War Transport and renamed Empire Galena. She was sold in 1947 and was renamed Albatross. She was sold in 1958 to South Africa and renamed Port Capetown. A further sale in 1959 saw her renamed Frontier. She was sold to Hong Kong in 1966 and was renamed Fortune. She served until 1968 when she was scrapped.
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Builder | J Cockerill, SA |
Yard number | 701 |
Launched | 25 August 1943 |
Completed | January 1944 |
Out of service | December 1968 |
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Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Hansa A type Cargo ship |
Tonnage | 1,925 GRT, 936 NRT, 2,956 DWT |
Length | 85.19 m (279 ft 6 in) |
Beam | 13.49 m (44 ft 3 in) |
Draught | 8.20 m (26 ft 11 in) |
Depth | 4.78 m (15 ft 8 in) |
Installed power | Compound steam engine, 1,200IHP |
Propulsion | Single screw propeller |
Speed | 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h) |
Capacity | 4,862 cubic metres (171,700 cu ft) |
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