page_title: SS Empire Duke
section_title: External links
hierarchical_section_title: SS Empire Duke / External links
caption_attribution_description: English: May 7th 1945 VE Day, WWW2. Merchant Navy. Deckhand John Dunphy bottom right.
context_page_description: Empire Duke was a 7,067 GRT cargo ship that was used during the Second World War in investigations into the metallurgical problems that Liberty ships were suffering from.
  Empire Duke was built in 1943 by J L Thompson & Sons Ltd, Sunderland, Co Durham for the Ministry of War Transport as an Empire ship.
  She was transferred to France in 1945 and renamed Lieutenant J Le Meur. She was sold to Morocco in 1949 and renamed Zelidja. In 1955, she was sold to Liberia and renamed Propontis, not being renamed after a sale in 1957. She served until 1966, when she was scrapped in Taiwan.
context_section_description: Photo of Lieutenant J Le Meur
  Photo of Lieutenant J Le Meur
  Photo of Zelidja
caption: May 7th 1945 VE Day, WWW2. Merchant Navy. Deckhand John Dunphy bottom right.
exif: {"Image Make": "Apple", "Image Model": "iPhone 5s", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "10.3.2", "Image DateTime": "2017:06:11 15:48:57", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image ExifOffset": "206", "GPS GPSLatitudeRef": "N", "GPS GPSLatitude": "[50, 57, 2387/100]", "GPS GPSLongitudeRef": "W", "GPS GPSLongitude": "[0, 30, 5257/100]", "GPS GPSAltitudeRef": "0", "GPS GPSAltitude": "11681/2053", "GPS GPSTimeStamp": "[14, 48, 1383/25]", "GPS GPSSpeedRef": "K", "GPS GPSSpeed": "0", "GPS GPSImgDirectionRef": "T", "GPS GPSImgDirection": "20789/319", "GPS GPSDestBearingRef": "T", "GPS GPSDestBearing": "20789/319", "GPS GPSDate": "2017:06:11", "GPS Tag 0x001F": "65", "Image GPSInfo": "1612", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "2016", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "9318", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/33", "EXIF FNumber": "11/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "100", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2017:06:11 15:48:57", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2017:06:11 15:48:57", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "2297/454", "EXIF ApertureValue": "7983/3509", "EXIF BrightnessValue": "3580/1441", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, auto mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "83/20", "EXIF SubjectArea": "[1631, 1223, 1795, 1077]", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "813", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "813", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "3264", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2448", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "29", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF LensSpecification": "[83/20, 83/20, 11/5, 11/5]", "EXIF LensMake": "Apple", "EXIF LensModel": "iPhone 5s back camera 4.15mm f/2.2"}