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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| RAGLAN CASTLE |
108187 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1897 |
20/01/1897 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow |
Clydeholm Yard |
408 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 4324 grt / 2722 nrt / |
383.5 ft |
46.3 ft |
20.0 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow |
| Engine detail |
| T3cyl (26.5, 44, 70 x 48in), 419nhp, 1-screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Castle Mail Packets Co.Ltd. - D.Currie & Co., London |
London |
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| Other names |
| 1905 HANNA - 1905 ST DOMINGO - 1908 RAGLAN CASTLE - 1910 PYTHIA - 1930 READY |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1900 Union-Castle Mail S.S. Co. Ltd., London
08/1904: Returned to Barclay, Curle and Co in part payment for new ship (DOVER CASTLE).
1905: Sold to Russian Navy for use as a store carrier.
02/1905: Sold to A/S Det Vestindiske Kompagni, Copenhagen for a West Indies service, renamed ST DOMINGO.
02~08/1906: Chartered for use as a troop ship between Vladivistock and Odessa.
23/09/1907: Arrived at Greenock following sale to Barclay, Curle and Co.
03/1909: Chartered to North~West Transport Line for Rotterdam~Halifax~New York passenger service.
07/1909: Returned to Barclay, Curle and Co.
01/1910: Sold to Pythia Steam Ship Co Ltd (Donaldson Brothers, managers), Glasow
11/1911: Sold to A/S Dominion Whaling Co Ltd, Sandefjord and converted into a whale oil refinery.
1920: Sold to A/S Odd, Sandefjord.
18/04/1929: Capsized while being repaired at Sandefjord by Framnaes MV, who took her over and repaired her.
1930: Sold to Hvalfanger A/S Africa, Sandefjord |
| Vessel history |
1911 converted to whale oil refinery |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1934 |
Broken Up 03/10/1934 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Breaking commenced at Rosyth by Metal Industries Ltd. |
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Raglan Castle
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Raglan Castle
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St Domingo
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