Alfred Mason IDNo 5010701

[humberships]

1919, 315grt
Abdela & Mitchell, Queensferry (404) as WARITA for John Summers & Sons
1947 ALFRED MASON, Duff, Herbert & Mitchell, Liverpool
later owned by Dinorwic Slate Quarries
1954 to John Tyrrell, Arklow
Broken up at Dublin 03/1968

[stuteman1]

Londonderry, photos taken in 1964

[Trader]

Alfred Mason.

I remember her when she occasionally discharged granite chippings and dust at Browns slate wharf Pomona docks Manchester. I worked in her agents office in Manchester, A.E. Bowen Ltd. when I left school and before I went to sea.

[Dierk Bauer]

Alfred Mason IDNo 5010701

Hi humbership, stuteman1 and Trader, thank you very much for sharing

Her details and history according to Miramar:

IDNo: 5010701
Year: 1920
Name: WARITA
Flag: GBR
Type: Cargo ship
Launch Date: 31.5.19
Date of completion: 4.20
Tons: 305
LPP: 38.7

Country of build: GBR
Builder: Abdela & Mitchell
Location of yard: Queensferry
Yard No: 404
Number of
screws/Mchy/ 1 D
Speed(kn): 8.5
Beam: 7.2
Subsequent History:
[LD as ADMIRAL VERNON] - 46 ALFRED MASON

End: 1968
Disposal Data:
BU Ringsend, Dublin 3.68 [Hammond Lane Foundry]

[canalsider]

Alfred Mason

Londonderry

Brilliant!. Wonderful memory. Why I ask myself did I not have a camera then!!!