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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| KELPIE |
120720 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1906 |
04/10/1906 |
11/1906 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Coaster Collier
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Ailsa Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Troon |
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157 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 612 grt / 184 nrt / |
179.1 ft |
27.1 ft |
10.7 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Ailsa Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Troon |
| Engine detail |
C2cyl. (20½” & 44” x 30”) 79nhp 720ihp 10¼kn, 1-screw
The first engine produced in-house by Ailsa. |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Mrs Susanna Kelly - mng Samuel Kelly, Belfast |
Belfast |
03/11/1906 |
| Other names |
| 23/06/1916 KEEPER |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
04/07/1911 John Kelly Ltd, Belfast - same manager
03/03/1916 James Bannatyne & Sons Ltd, Limerick - reg Limerick |
| Vessel history |
| 1914 612grt 240nrt; 1914 572grt 222nrt |
| Remarks |
25/07/1917 Posted missing.
25/09/1917 Register closed.
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1917 |
Torpedoed 10/06/1917 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Whilst on a voyage from Belfast to Limerick with a cargo of grain disappeared, having passed Aranmore. The cause of her loss was never established although believed sunk by the German submarine UC 66. The submarine was also missing in the area at the time and the cause of her loss also was not established. |
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