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MEDIC / SOUTHERN PRINCE / ARGOSY / ORIENTAL PROSPERITY / TOPAZ

BUILT IN 1956 FOR THE PRINCE LINE BY HARLAND AND WOLFF AT GOVAN. SHE WAS THE SISTER SHIP TO WESTERN PRINCE. IN 1958 CHARTERED TO SHAW SAVILL & ALBION AND RE-NAMED 'MEDIC'.1960 WENT BACK TO HER ORIGINAL NAME.1971 SOLD TO EASTERN GLORY ENTERPRISES OF MOGADISHU,SOMALIA AND WAS RE-NAMED 'ARGOSY'.SOLD TO PANAMANIAN BASED COMPANY IN 1977 AND RE-NAMED 'ORIENTAL PROSPERITY'. SOLD AGAIN IN 1977 AND RE-NAMED 'TOPAZ'. SHE WAS SCRAPPED IN KAOHSIUNG THE NEXT YEAR.

 

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