Musgroves Mills

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Musgroves Mills

T2-SE-A1

Built May 1944 by Sun Shipbuilding Company, Chester, Pennsylvania,

as "Musgroves Mills" # 1770, for U.S.M.C.

1947 - GULFMILLS, Gulf Oil Corp., Philadelphia

1961 - MARINE ELECTRIC, Marine Corp. (Marine Transport Lines, Inc.), Wilmington, Del.

1962 - Marine Coal Transport Corp. (Marine Transport Lines, Inc., Wilmington, Del.

1962 - converted to bulk carrier and lengthened by Bethlehem Steel Co., Inc., SB. Div., East Boston,

Mass. by replacement of midbody with new cargo section built by Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack,

13,757 grt, 587,7 x 75.2', work completed 11/1962

Capsized, broke in two and foundered, 12 Feb 1983, in bad weather, in 37.52.30N-74.46.24W,

off Chincoteague Island, Va., voyage Hampton Roads - Brayton Point, Mass, coal.

( See photo below )

Ship Report for "MUSGROVES MILLS"

ID No: 2245675 Year: 1944

Name: MUSGROVES MILLS Launch Date: 02.05.1944

Type: Tanker Date of completion: 05.1944

Flag: USA Keel:

Tons: 10297 Link: 1976

DWT: 16613 Yard No: 437

Length overall: 159.6 Ship Design: T2-SE-A1

LPP: 153.3 Country of build: USA

Beam: 20.7 Builder: Sun

Material of build: - Location of yard: Chester, Pa

Number ofscrews/Mchy/ Speed(kn): 1TE-15

Owner as Completed: U.S.War Sg Administration, Philadelphia

Subsequent History:

[1962 Lg & widened 13757gt & cv to bulk carrier] - 1947 GULFMILLS -

1961 MARINE ELECTRIC

Disposal Data:

capsized & broke in two 37.52.30N / 74.46.24W 12.02.1983.

History:

"Marine Electric", ex. "Gulfmilss", ex. "Musgroves Mills" at Bremerhaven, Germany, 07-1970

( Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus )

"Marine Electric", ex. "Gulfmilss", ex. "Musgroves Mills".

( Photo Fotoflyte )

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