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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| CIUDAD DE ASUNCION |
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ARG |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1930 |
22/08/1929 |
03/1930 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo
| Steel Motor Vessel |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| A. & J. Inglis Ltd., Glasgow |
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847 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 2851 grt / 1453 nrt / |
306.4 ft. |
58.5 ft. |
9.4 ft. |
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| Engine builder |
Harland & Wolff Ltd., Glasgow |
| Engine detail |
| 3-screw. Oil engines 4SCSA 18Cyl. 431NHP |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Cia. Argentina de Nav. Mihanovich Ltda., Buenos Aires |
Buenos Aires |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1942 Cia. Argentina de Nav. Dodero S.A., Buenos Aires
1949 Cia. de Nav. Fluvial Argentina S.A., Buenos Aires
1963 Flota Argentina de Nav. Fluvial, Buenos Aires |
| Vessel history |
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1963 |
Burned 11/07/1963 |
| Disposal Detail |
11/07/1963 she struck the submerged wreck of freighter MARIONGA J. CAIRIS near Colonia on the River Plate on passage Montevidoe for Buenos Aires. During the evacuation of her 358 passengers and 63 crew,she caught fire from engine-room short circuit.
fifty-two lives lost. |
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