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Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
MOOR |
82428 |
GBR |
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Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
1882 |
23/12/1881 |
28/05/1882 |
Vessel type |
Vessel description
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Passenger / Cargo
| Iron Screw Steamer |
Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
James & George Thomson, Clydebank |
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184 |
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Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
3688 grt / 2352 nrt / |
365.8 ft |
46.1 ft |
28.9 ft |
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Engine builder |
James & George Thomson, Clydebank |
Engine detail |
C2cyl 600nhp 4000ihp 13kn 1-screw
1888 engine tripled by T Richardson & Sons, Hartlepool: T3cyl 35",56",90"x60" 470nhp 5000ihp 16kn |
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First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
Union Steam Ship Co Ltd, London |
Southampton |
28/04/1882 |
Other names |
1901 LA PLATA - 1908 THE VIKING |
Subsequent owner and registration history |
1900 Union-Castle Mail Steam Ship Co Ltd, London 1901 Royal Mail Steam Packet Co, London - reg London 1908 John E Kynaston, Douglas McG Hogg and Robert Mitchell (Polytechnic Touring Association) - mng Robert Mitchell, London 1912 The Viking Cruising Co Ltd - mng S J Beckett, London |
Vessel history |
4/1885 converted at Simonstown to armed merchant cruiser and patrolled East Africa (fear of war with Russia); 10/1885 returned to owners 1888 3597grt 2138nrt 1894 lengthened in steel by 65 feet and 2nd funnel added: 4464grt 2820nrt, 420.6 x 45.8 x 29.3ft
1908 converted for cruising 16/1910 aground in Geiranger Fjord, Norway - refloated after three days |
Remarks |
Sub-contract from Aitken & Mansel passengers: 1stx150, 2ndx90, 3rdx130. |
End year |
Fate / Status |
1913 |
Broken Up 14/02/1913 |
Disposal Detail |
14/2/1913 arrived Zwijndrecht, Netherlands to be broken up by Sundermann |
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Moor
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La Plata
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La Plata
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Viking aground in Norway
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