Name El Argentino Tonnage 9501 GRT Launched 11 January 1928 | Yard number 629 Beam 64 ft (19.51 m) Length 131 m | |
Owner Houlder Brothers & Co Ltd, London Fate Bombed and sunk on 26 July 1943 Builder Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company | ||
MV El Argentino was a cargo ship operated by the British Houlder Line.
El Argentino was built at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Glasgow for the chilled meat trade between Argentina, Uruguay and Britain. She was 9,501 tons and fitted with Fairfield/Sulzer diesel engines. She was sailing in ballast as part of convoy OS 52 km from Glasgow to Montevideo, when she was attacked by German aircraft north west of Lisbon on 26 July 1943. She was bombed and sunk with the loss of four of her crew.
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