Elk
1959
(Llyn 2005NY)
- Type: Freighter
- Displacement: 870 tons
- Dimensions: 228 x 38.6 ft.
- Machinery: Two Sulzer 6TD36 diesels, 1800 BHP =
- Builder: Brooke Marine Ltd, Lowestoft, England, 1959
- Notes: Operated by British Railways from Southampton/Weymouth to the Channel Islands, carrying general cargo outbound and returning with flowers and vegetables. Repainted in Sealink colors in 1965. Sold to Valmas Shipping Co, Greece in 1972 and renamed Nikolas. Renamed Skiron in 1973. Sold to Jupiter SS Co Inc, Panama, in 1975 and renamed Nasim. On 12 Feb 1976 while outbound from Livorno to Alexandria, she struck and sank on the rocks at Giannutri Island.
Sistership Moose.
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