''Aqueity'' was an

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tanker which was built by A & J Inglis Ltd,

Glasgow Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in Strathclyde, west central Scotland. It is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom ...

in 1945 for the

Ministry of War Transport The Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) was a department of the British Government formed early in the Second World War to control transportation policy and resources. It was formed by merging the Ministry of Shipping and the Ministry of Transpor ...

(MoWT) as ''Empire Belgrave''. In 1947 she was sold to F T Everard and Sons and renamed ''Aqueity'', being lost later that year when she struck a

mine Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to: Extraction or digging *Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging *Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine Grammar *Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun M ...

and sank off the coast of the Netherlands.

Description

''Empire Belgrave'' was built by A. & J. Inglis Ltd, Glasgow. She was yard number 1299. ''Empire Belgrave'' was launched on 16 March 1945 and completed on 19 June. She was long, with a beam of and a depth of . Her GRT was 890, DWT 900 with a NRT of 382.

Career

''Empire Belgrave'' was managed for the MoWT by the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd. Postwar management passed to Shell Tankers. In 1947, ''Empire Belgrave'' was sold to F T Everard & Sons Ltd,

Greenhithe Greenhithe may refer to: *Greenhithe, Kent Greenhithe is a village in the Borough of Dartford in Kent, England, and the civil parish of Swanscombe and Greenhithe. It is located east of Dartford and west of Gravesend. Area In the past, Gree ...

and renamed ''Aqueity''. On 11 November 1947, she struck a mine off

Terschelling Terschelling (; ; Terschelling dialect: ''Schylge'') is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and an island in the northern Netherlands, one of the West Frisian Islands. It is situated between the islands of Vlieland and Ameland. ...

, the Netherlands and sank. The wreck lies in of water at .

Official Numbers and Code Letters

Official Numbers were a forerunner to

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. The ship had the UK

Official Number Official numbers are ship identifier numbers assigned to merchant ships by their flag state, country of registration. Each country developed its own official numbering system, some on a national and some on a port-by-port basis, and the formats hav ...

169440 and the Code Letters GKJW.

Propulsion

The ship was propelled by a two-stroke Single Cycle, Single Action

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which had four cylinders of diameter by stroke. It was built by British Polar Engines Ltd, Glasgow.

References

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