Malancha
1970
(Solent SOM-20a)
- Type: General cargo
- Displacement: 7,004 tons
- Dimensions: 490.5 x 63.3 x 26.7 ft
- Machinery: Steam turbine, single screw, 10,000 shp = 17.5 knots
- Builder: William Hamilton & Co, Port Glasgow, Scotland, 1960
- Service: Built as Alaunia for Cunard Line. Transferred
to Brocklebank Ltd 1969 on charter and renamed Malancha. Sister ship was Macharda, the ex-Cunard Andania. Routes from European ports to India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, and from there to USA East Coast and Gulf ports.
Sold 1971 to Soja Shipping (Liberia) Inc, Panama, and renamed Humi Nassta. Resold 1973 to Ocean Tramping Co, Mogadishu, Somalia - under Chinese control - and renamed Yungming. Finally sold 1975 to People's Republic of China, Bureau of Maritime Transport, Guangzhou, and renamed Hong Qi 107. Deleted from Lloyd's List 1993.
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