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Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
SAPHIR |
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NOR |
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Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
1920 |
1920/03 |
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Vessel type |
Vessel description
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Cargo General
| Steel Screw Steamer |
Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
Clyde Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Port Glasgow |
Castle Works |
321 |
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Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
2393 grt / 1407 nrt / |
296.1 ft |
44.3 ft |
20.3 ft |
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Engine builder |
Clyde Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Port Glasgow |
Engine detail |
1-screw. T3Cyl.(22,35 & 59 - 39)in. 180lb 250nhp |
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First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
D/S A/S Saphir - P. Lindoe & Co. A/S, Haugesund |
Haugesund |
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Other names |
1922 FERM - 1930 ASTRA - 1940 ASTRA II |
Subsequent owner and registration history |
1922 Angbats A/B Ferm - Dan Brostrom, Kristinehamn 1929 A/S D/S Orion - C. P. Jensen, Copenhagen 10/04/1940 seized at Leith by U.K. 1940 Ministry of Shipping - J. S. Stranaghan & Co., London / Cardiff |
Vessel history |
Launched for Butler Wang, sold while fitting out 1940 ON 167460 London |
Remarks |
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End year |
Fate / Status |
1940 |
Torpedoed 29/08/1940 |
Disposal Detail |
Torpedoed in North Atlantic by U.100 in 56.09N - 12.14W on passage Tyne for Rimouski in ballast. |
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Astra II
Image courtesy of : Herve Levano
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