East Africa National Line MULUNGUSHI and the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company floating crane SAMSON seen in Vittoria Dock, East Float, Birkenhead around 1979/80. MULUNGUSHI was built at the Elsinore Ship Yard, New York in 1960. Floating crane SAMSON.
SAMSON was sold to new owners in 1987 but unfortunately was wrecked in a storm on the County Waterford coast in December 1987. Her remains lie there to this day.
This slide image is from the Tom Hesketh Collection in the care of the Merseyside Branch of the World Ship Society.
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