The MV Aureol was a 1951 built mid-sized British ocean liner

Ocean liner

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, originally put into service for Elder Dempster Lines

Elder Dempster Lines

Elder Dempster Lines was a British shipping company which operated from 1932 to 2000, although its origins stretch back into the mid-19th century.-History:Elder Dempster and Company started trading as the African Steamship Company in 1852...

 of Liverpool

Liverpool

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 in 1951.

She was constructed on the River Clyde

River Clyde

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 in Glasgow

Glasgow

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 by the shipbuilders Alexander Stephen and Sons

Alexander Stephen and Sons

Alexander Stephen and Sons Limited, often referred to simply as Alex Stephens or just Stephens, was a Scottish shipbuilding company based in Linthouse, Govan in Glasgow, on the River Clyde.-History:...

. At 537 feet long and weighing just over 14,000 tons, Aureol had room for 329 passengers and carried 145 crew.. She spent much of her working life on the route from Liverpool to Lagos

Lagos

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Aureol was withdrawn in 1974, but was purchased by Greek oil tycoon John S. Latsis, and renamed Marianna VI after one of his daughters. In 1989 she was laid up at Eleusina

Eleusina

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 and did not sail again until 2001, when she moved to the Indian port of Alang to be beached and broken up for scrap metal.