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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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