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WAIRANGI / 2ND  / EMPIRE GRACE

BUILT BY HARLAND AND WOLFF IN BELFAST IN 1942, AS THE EMPIRE GRACE FOR THE M.O.W.T AND MANAGED BY SHAW SAVILL AND ALBION. SHE WAS BOUGHT BY SHAW SAVILL AND ALBION IN 1946 AND RE-NAMED WAIRANGI. SHE WAS SCRAPPED AT FASLANE IN 1963.SHE HAD BEEN THE SISTER SHIP TO EMPIRE HOPE, EMPIRE MERCIA, AND EMPIRE WESSEX. THE SECOND PICTURE SHOWS HER AS THE EMPIRE GRACE.

 

 




 

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