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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| FRANCIS |
128015 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1910 |
10/12/1909 |
1/1910 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo General
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow |
Clydeholm Yard |
479 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 3963 grt / 2339 nrt / |
355.0 ft |
49.2 ft |
24.2 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow |
| Engine detail |
| 1-screw. T3cyl (24, 40 & 67 - 48)in. 180lb. 40nhp |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Booth Steamship Co. Ltd., Liverpool |
Liverpool |
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| Other names |
| 1931 ROSALIE MOLLER |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1931 Eric B. Moller - Moller & Co. Shanghai - reg Shanghai (GBR flag)
1935 Nils E. A. Moller
1935 Moller Line Ltd, Shanghai |
| Vessel history |
| 1939 requisitioned by Ministry of War Transport as a collier. |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1941 |
Bombed 08/10/1941 |
| Disposal Detail |
Sunk by Heinkel 111 bombers from No. 2 Squadron 26th Kamp
Geswader based in Crete bombing during night of 7-8/10/1941 at Anchorage "H", Towala, Gulf of Suez (Durban for Alexandria with coal)(until 6/10 the Towala anchorages had been thought to be beyond the range of German bombers)
Some sources erroneously report that she was raised and scrapped. The wreck remains and is a dive site.
http://www.shipwrecksofegypt.com/images/shippages/rosaliemoller.html
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Rosalie Moller
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