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Empire Barbados

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1944 Empire Barbados British Government
1948 Tennyson Rodney S.S. Co. Ltd.
1950 Berylstone Thomas Stone (Shipping) Ltd.
1959 Manticos Zannis Cia Naviera SA

Fate

On a voyage from Libreville, Gabon for the Mediterranean with a cargo of logs, Manticos devoloped a leak on 8 October 1963 & although a tug assisted with pumping her out she sank south of Dakar, Senegal on 16 October 1963. 

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