''Anglia'' was a Hansa A Type cargo ship which was built as ''Weserberg'' in 1944 by P Smit,

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y. She was seized as a prize of war in 1945, passing to the Ministry of War Transport and renamed ''Empire Gallery''. She was sold to Singapore in 1947 and renamed ''Kampar''. She was sold in 1957 to Greece and renamed ''Anglia'' before being sold the next year to Panama. She served until 1974 when she was scrapped.

Description

The ship was long, with a beam of . She had a depth of . She was assessed as , , . The ship was propelled by a

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, which had two cylinders of 42 cm (16 inches) and two cylinders of 90 cm (35 inches) diameter by 90 cm (35 inches) stroke. The engine was built P Smit. Rated at 1,200 IHP, it drove a single screw propeller and could propel the ship at .

History

''Weserberg'' was a Hansa A Type cargo ship built in 1944 as yard number 585 by NV Machinefabriek en Scheepswerf P Smit Jr.,

, Netherlands for

. She was launched in June 1994 and completed at

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in February 1945. Her port of registry was Hamburg. In May 1945, ''Weserberg'' was seized as a prize of war at

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. She was passed to the Ministry of War Transport. She was renamed ''Empire Gallery''. The

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GMCT and United Kingdom

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180653 were allocated. Her port of registry was

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and she was operated under the management of the William Brown, Atkinson & Co Ltd, Hull. On 15 October, she struck a mine off the Cordouan Lighthouse,

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, France and was damaged. She was towed in to Le Verdon-sur-Mer. ''Empire Galleon'' arrived at

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under tow on 7 January 1946 and was repaired there. In 1947 ''Empire Galleon'' was sold to the Straits Steamship Co. Ltd.,

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and was renamed ''Kampar''. In 1957, ''Kampar'' was sold to Hellenic Lines, Greece and was renamed ''Anglia''. Her port of registry was

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. She was sold the next year to Universal Cargo Carriers, Panama. With their introduction in the 1960s, ''Anglia'' was allocated the

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5017589. She arrived at Gemlik, Turkey on 23 February for scrapping by Centas Celik Makina. ''Anglia'' was scrapped in April 1974.

References

External links

Colour photograph of ''Anglia''
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