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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| MID-OCEAN |
156175 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1929 |
30/08/1929 |
10/1929 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger Tender
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Blythswood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Glasgow |
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26 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 730 grt / 294 nrt / |
176.3 ft |
33.7 ft |
15.0 ft |
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| Engine builder |
J G Kincaid & Co. Ltd., Greenock |
| Engine detail |
| Twin T3cyl (14,23 & 38 - 27)in 279nhp, 2-screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Bermuda and West Indies Steamship Co Ltd, Hamilton - Furness, Withy & Co Ltd |
Hamilton, Bermuda |
12/11/1929 |
| Other names |
| 1930 CASTLE HARBOUR |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
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| Vessel history |
10/1929 trials, 14kn
Initially used for Dutch labourers hired in Surinam for building of the company's Castle Harbour Resort Hotel
1930 name changed to free MID-OCEAN for the new liner ordered from Vickers Armstrong, Walker - subsequently built as MONARCH OF BERMUDA |
| Remarks |
| capacity 600 deck passengers |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1942 |
Torpedoed 16/10/1942 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Torpedoed by U-160 in 11.00N 61.10W (about 15nm N of Trinidad and 20nm SW of Tobago) on passage Trinidad for Pernambuco in ballast. |
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CASTLE HARBOUR assisting burning BERMUDA 16/6/1931
Image courtesy of : Bermuda Maritime Museum
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