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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| WAR ANCHUSA |
142767 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1919 |
07/12/1918 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo General
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Caird & Company, Greenock |
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355 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 5242 grt / 6161 nrt / |
400.0 ft |
52.3 ft |
28.5 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Caird & Company, Greenock |
| Engine detail |
| T3cyl (27, 44 & 73 x 48ins), 517nhp, 3000ihp, 11.5 knots, 1 screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| The Shipping Controller - J. Temperley & Co., London |
London |
15/01/1919 |
| Other names |
| 02/10/1919 BEMBRIDGE - 17/10/1924 QUEEN OLGA – 13/03/1937 SEVERN LEIGH |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
30/09/1919 Temperley Steam Shipping Co. Ltd. (J. Temperley and Co. managers), London.
09/09/1924 Cadogan Steamship Co. Ltd. (Thomas Dunlop and Sons, managers), Glasgow.
15/10/1924 Re-registered at Glasgow (66/1924).
11/12/1936 Talisman Shipping Co. Ltd. (Monroe Brothers, managers), Liverpool.
11/03/1937 Re-registered at Bristol (1/1937).
11/03/1937 Severn Steamship Co. Ltd. (Mark Whitwill (Shipping) Ltd., managers), Bristol.
11/01/1938 Kelston Steamship Co. Ltd. (Mark Whitwill (Shipping) Ltd. managers), Bristol.
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| Vessel history |
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1940 |
Torpedoed 28/03/1940 |
| Disposal Detail |
Torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U 37 south of Iceland in position 54.31 north by 25.41 west whilst on a voyage from Hull to St. John, New Brunswick in ballast. There were 10 survivors; 32 crew and one gunner were lost.
28/09/1940 Register closed.
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Queen Olga
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