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MV Kypros
1950 Cargo ship operating UK-Mediterranean-Black Sea
Seen here as new.
112m long, 16m wide.
Completed on 12/4/1950, 3499 gross tons,
built by Pickersgill of Southwick, Sunderland
for Moss Hutchinson Line Ltd, operating from Liverpool.
Travelled to Mediterranean Europe (France, Spain, Portugal etc to Black Sea.
Chartered to Cunard in 1967 as "Aurania", transferred in 1971 to P&O
Sold 1976, renamed Angeliki, and in 1982 sent to Beypore for scrapping. The use of containers left no trade for general cargo ships.
Moss Hutchinson- the Moss comes from an early shipper James Moss of 1815. In 1916 the line was owned by Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. After WW1 they only had two ships left. The company was used to buy J & P Hutchinson and the two companies merged under the joint title in 1934. In 1935 a P&O subsidiary bought the merged company. '