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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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