- ^ "Sugar Transporter". Aberdeen Built Ships. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1979 | |
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| History | |
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| Name |
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| Owner |
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| Builder | Hall, Russell & Company |
| Yard number | 859 |
| Launched | 21 November 1957 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs J.F.P. Tate |
| Identification | Official number: 187743 |
| Fate | Sank 1979 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 6,550 GRT |
| Length | 370 ft (110 m) |
| Beam | 53 ft (16 m) |
| Depth | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
SS Sugar Transporter was the title of a cargo ship built by Hall, Russell & Company and launched on 21 November 1957. Its construction was sponsored by the wife of Mr. J. F. P. Tate, a director of Silvertown Services Shipping Company Ltd. In 1966, the ship's name was changed to Malmi under new owners from Helsinki, Finland. On 6 December 1979, during a voyage from Gdańsk, Poland to Koverhar, Malmi capsized and sank in the Baltic Sea, 40 nautical miles (46 mi; 74 km) northeast of Gotska Sandön, when her cargo of coke shifted in heavy weather.[1]
