Potosi

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 Paul Ditchfield (PWSTS 1962)

20-03-66 to 16-07-66

 Charles Edward Richardson (Able Seaman)
Died at sea onboard SS Potosi  04/01/1967 off Valparaiso
aged 29 years on 04/01/1967. RIP
1967

POTOSI (4) was built in 1955 by Greenock Dockyard Co. at Greenock with a tonnage of 8494grt, a length of 512ft 7in, a beam of 66ft 4in and a service speed of 16 knots. She was launched on 23rd February 1955 for the South American cargo services. In 1972 she was sold to Granvias Oceanicos Armadora S.A. of Piraeus and renamed Kavo Pieratis. For years later, in October 1976, she was sold to W. H. Arnott Young & Co and broken up at Dalmuir.