Aconcagua

Class: ABS

Type of ship: General Cargo Type: C2-S-B1.MC-1186

Call Sign: CBAO

Flag: Chile

Port of Register: Valparaiso

Ship?s Owners: Compa??a Sudamericana de Vapores CSAV

DWT: 9.970
GRT: 7.989 NRT: 3.508

LOA: 139,90 Mts. B: 19,20 Mts. D: 9,43 Mts. Draught: 8,47 Mts.

Ship?s Yard: Moore Dry Dock Co., of Oakland, USA. Hull N?: 273

Date of Launch: 29 April 1944 Delivery date: June, 1944

Main Engine

Two Steam Turbines General Electric Co., Lynn, MS, U. S. A. 6000 SHP Ship?s service speed: 15,50 Knots

29 April 1944. Launched for U. S. War Shipping Administration, San Francisco. Christened Ocean Telegraph. (Flag: U. S. A.)

June 1944. Delivered.

1946. Sold to Compa??a Sudamericana de Vapores CSAV, Valpara?so. Renamed Aconcagua (Flag: Chile)

1946. Modified to carry 12 passengers and frigorific cargo.

28 October 1946. Delivered to CSAV.
13 May 1951. Damages due to hit a submarine mine navigating between Rotterdam to Hamburg. Repaired in the Ship?s Yard Belliard Crighton of Antwerp, Belgium.

1965. Sold to P. G. Callimanopoulos. Renamed Hellenic Sunbeam.

25 July 1973. Scrapped in Bilbao, Spain.