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                                                                                                                                     Above   photgraph taken by Dick Howell, possibily at Liverpool

CYPRIAN PRINCE / AGIOS DIONISIOS / IRENES'S WISH / FULMAR TRADER 

THE CYPRIAN PRINCE WAS BUILT IN 1949 BY HAWTHORN LESLIE & CO OF NEWCASTLE. SHE WAS THE SISTER SHIP TO THE MALTESE PRINCE, AND WAS BUILT FOR THE PRINCE LINE, WITH FURNESS WITHY AS MANAGERS. IN 1967 SHE WAS SOLD TO THE ANATASSIS SHIPPING COMPANY OF CYPRUS AND RE-NAMED 'AGIOS DIONISIOS'. IN 1972 SHE WAS SOLD TO A GREEK COMPANY AND WAS RE-NAMED 'IRENES'S WISH'. IN 1973 SHE WAS SOLD BACK TO ANOTHER CYPRIOT COMPANY AND RE-NAMED ' FULMAR TRADER '. IN 1976 SHE CAUGHT FIRE WHILE ON VOYAGE FROM SPEZIA TO LAGOS, AND WAS PUT UNDER TOW BOUND FOR MAJORCA, BUT SANK WHILST OFF PALERMO.

 


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