AEON

AEON

 

 

Aeon (2)

 

 

Australian

 

 

1913 - 1955

 

 

Howard Smiths Shipping Co.

 

 

3,763 gross tons.

 

 

Lb: 111.3 x 15.4 metres.

 

 

Steel single screw cargo steamship built by Dixon (Raylton) at Middlesbrough for Australian Steamships Ltd (Howard Smith), Melbourne. Quadruple expansion engine making 11 knots.

 

 

1955 sold to John Manners & Co., Hong Kong renamed Nepean Breeze. 1957 sold to Wheelock Marden and renamed Lisboa. Broken up at Taiwan 1960

 

 

Information supplied by John Hoskin: www.flotilla-australia.com/

 

 

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Photo Credits: The late Allan Green collection Vic Australia / State Library of Victoria

 

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