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EGYPTIAN PRINCE

7/5/2013

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Another vessel that my Grandad worked on as an able bodied seaman. This was the last ship he sailed on before being discharged from Merchant Navy Service on 1 December 1945. 

He picked up the ship in Manchester on 30 May 1945 for foreign destinations (from 1939 all the destinations is his log book are noted as being 'foreign') returning to South Shields on 30 June 1945. He was on her again leaving South Shields on  9 July 1945 returning to London on 15 November 1945.

She was built in 1922 by Furness Shipbuilding Co. at Haverton Hill (Yard No. 27) having a tonnage of 3490grt, length of 363ft 5in, beam of 52ft 2in and a service speed of 11 knots. 

She was launched as Braziliana for Furness Withy but delivered in May 1922 to the Prince line as the Egyptian Prince. In 1946, after surviving the war, she was sold to Cie des Bateaux du Nord of Dunkirk and renamed Lorrain. Seven years later in 1953 she was acquired by Soc. Monegasque de Transports Maritimes of Monte Carlo and renamed Herculis. She was broken up in Toulon in February 1960. 

Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Merchant Navy Association.
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Robert Munro
13/7/2019 07:20:58 pm

My grandad also served on that ship as a fireman 30th may 45 to 30th june 1945 upto to Dec 45.Do you know if this ship helped bring across troops for the D Day landings?

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Lynn miller
22/1/2023 12:23:59 pm

My dad was I the merchant navy. According to his log book he was on the Egyptian Prince in 1962 as a 2nd mate. This does not fit with the information above. Can anyone please advise. Thanks

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    My interest in ships and the sea started back in 2006 when I worked for a couple of years  on the banks of the River Mersey. I have since been on a couple of cruises around the Med and in the Far East and have started to take more interest in researching and photographing some of the ships and other vessels seen on my travels.

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