MV E Evangelia
E Evangelia's wreck at Costinești, Romania
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| United Kingdom, Greece | |
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| Builder: | Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
| Yard number: | 1120 |
| Launched: | 28 May 1942 |
| Completed: | 22 December 1942 |
| Maiden voyage: | 13 January 1943, Liverpool to Sydney |
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| Fate: | ran aground 15 October 1968 |
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| Length: | 431.4 ft (131.5 m) |
| Beam: | 57.3 ft (17.5 m) |
| Draught: | 38 ft 8 in (11.79 m) |
| Depth: | 33.6 ft (10.2 m) |
| Installed power: | 490 NHP |
| Propulsion: | 6-cylinder marine Diesel engine |
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| Armament: | DEMS (1942–45) |
| Notes: | sister ship: Nelson Star |
MV E Evangelia is a shipwrecked 7,355-gross register ton (GRT) refrigerated cargo ship at Costinești on the Black Sea coast of Romania. She was built in Northern Ireland in 1942 as the Empire ship Empire Strength, was operated by Blue Star Line from 1942 to 1961, was bought by Greek shipowners in 1965 and wrecked in 1968. The ship had four names in her career, having been renamed Saxon Star in 1946, Redbrook in 1961 and E Evangelia in 1965.
Harland and Wolff's Belfast yard built the ship for the UK Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). She was launched on 28 May as Empire Strength and completed in December.
She was a motor ship, with a six-cylinder four-stroke single-acting marine Diesel engine developing 490 NHP. The engine was built by Harland and Wolff but was a Burmeister & Wain design from Denmark. Her navigation equipment included wireless direction finding and an echo sounding device.
The MoWT appointed Blue Star Line to manage her.
Empire Strength left Harland and Wolff in Belfast on 22 December 1942 and reached the Liverpool the next day. On 13 January 1943 she began her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Sydney via the Panama Canal. It included three convoys: ON 161 from Liverpool to New York, NG 342 from there to Guantánamo Bay and GZ 22 from there to Cristóbal. After passing through the Panama Canal between 18 and 20 February the ship crossed the Pacific Ocean independently, reaching Sydney on 20 March. Records for the rest of the year are incomplete, but the ship seems to have continued to run between Australia and Britain via Panama. She ended 1943 sailing from Australia to Britain as usual via Panama, Guantánamo Bay and New York. She left Melbourne on 12 December and reached Cardiff on 21 February.
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