Boswell
Ship Number
550
Vessel Type
A Type Cargo Ship
Built
Belfast
Slip Number
3
Launch Date
July 1, 1920
Delivered
November 19, 1920
Owner
Shipping Controller - Lamport & Holt Ltd
Weight
5327 grt
BP Length
400 feet
Breadth
52 feet
No. of Screws
Single
Speed (approx)
11.5 knots
Propulsion
Official No.
143686
Registered
Liverpool
Fate
Scrapped
Boswell

Built as a wartime standard type ship, she was launched  as the War Bamboo, but was completed as the Boswell for Lamport & Holt.
 
In 1933 she was sold to the White SS Co, a new company set up to try out an experimental economy engine, and renamed Adderstone.
 
In April 1937 she was sold to Johan Gerrard, Kristiansand, Norway and renamed Gema, and in 1950 was sold to Wallem & Co, Hong Kong.
 
In 1951 she went to Daiichi Kabusiki Kaisya (First Shipping Co), Kobe and was named Norway Maru. Fitted with diesel engines in 1958 by Niigata Eng.Co, Niigata, Japan, she was eventually scrapped at Sakai in 1968.
 
[Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.34, Lamport & Holt]