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Name Official number Flag IMO
PASS OF BALMAHA  95087  GBR   
Year built Date launched Date completed
1888  09/08/1888   
Vessel type Vessel description
Cargo   Steel Sailing Vessel 3 Masted Ship
Builder Yard Yard no
Robert Duncan & Co, Port Glasgow East Yard  237 
 

Tonnage Length Breadth Depth Draft
1571 grt / 1498 nrt / 245.45 ft  38.8 ft  22.55 ft   
Engine builder ,
Engine detail
 

First owner First port of register Registration date
Gibson & Clark (manager, D. R. Clark,] Glasgow)  Glasgow   
Other names
1915 SEEADLER 
Subsequent owner and registration history
1908 River Plate Shipping Company of New York
1910 Ship Pass of Balmaha co.Ltd.[River Plate Shipping Co.Ltd.]1914 Pass of Balmaha Shipping Co.Inc.,Boston U.S.A.1915 Harris-Irby Cotton Co,Boston1916 German Navy as SEEADLER 
Vessel history
Captured by U-36,4 august 1915,in the North Sea on voyage from New York to Archangel with cotton. taken to Cuxhaven and converted to an armed raider with auxilliary diesel engine. Commanded by Count Von Luckner commissioned into the German Navy,December 1916 
Remarks
 
End year Fate / Status
1917  Wrecked 01/08/1917 
Disposal Detail
Wrecked,1 August 1917 on Mopelia Island in the Society Islands,after being struck by a tidal wave. 
 

 

Pass of Balmaha - Green Collection – State of Vi
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