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T2-SE-A1
 A remembrance postcard off the "Fort Donelsen".
 
"Los Hemanos", ex. "Haligonian Lad", ex. "Fort Donelson", on the Brisbane River some time in the late 1940s.
( Photo Copyright Clive Fisher )
 "Los Hemanos", ex. "Haligonian Lad", ex. "Fort Donelson", source, location and date unknown.
( Photo Copyright Reserved )
 
"Los Hemanos", ex. "Haligonian Lad", ex. "Fort Donelson", in the Suez Canal, southbound for the Persian Gulf, source unknown.
 
"Los Hemanos", ex. "Haligonian Lad", ex. "Fort Donelson", in the Suez Canal, southbound for the Persian Gulf, source unknown.
 
"Los Hemanos", ex. "Haligonian Lad", ex. "Fort Donelson", location and date unknown.
( Photo Copyright Dick Markell )
"Niasca" ex. "Los Hemanos", ex. "Haligonian Lad', ex. "Fort Donelson", seen at La Spezia, Italy, April, 1973.
( Photo by Gerhard L. Mueller-Debus )
 The "Lonado", ex, "Niasca" ex. "Los Hemanos", ex. "Haligonian Lad', ex. "Fort Donelson", Syros Island, Greece on July 2nd 1980.
( Photo NeilB )
 
A very rusty hulk, the "Lonado", ex, "Niasca" ex. "Los Hemanos", ex. "Haligonian Lad', ex. "Fort Donelson", at Syros Island, Greece, date unknown.
( Photo Copyright David Boone )

FORT DONELSON, T2-SE-A1
History :
Built by The Kaiser Co., Swan Island Yard, Portland, Oregon.
Yardnumber 30. UMSC No. 822. Off. nr. 244378.
Keel laid 20-07-1943. Launched 18-09-1943. Completed 09-10-1943. Gr. 10448 t., Net. 6285 t., Dw. 16613 t. L.o.a. 159,57 m., Br. 20,78 m., Dr. 8,99 m. Engine: 2 steam turbines, manufactured by General Electric Company, Lynn, Massachussetts. 7240 B.h.p., 5401 kW. Speed 15 knots. 26 Tanks.
History:
FORT DONELSON-1943 completed for United States War Shipping Administration, Portland, Oregon, USA.
HALIGONIAN LAD-1948 for Acadia Overseas Freighters, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
LOS HERMANOS-1949 for “Victor” Panamanian Steamship Company, Panama.
NIASCA-1968 for Compania Marittima Carlo Cameli, Genoa, Italy.
LONADO-1973 for Greek American Shipbuilding & Repair Corporation, Company, Piraeus, Greece.
Additional Reports:
Reported Lonado converted into tank cleaning hulk at Neorion Shipyard Syros Ltd. in 1975. No further info.