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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| BARON WEMYSS |
146716 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1924 |
19/04/1924 |
05/1924 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo General
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Dunlop, Bremner & Co. Ltd., Port Glasgow |
Inch Yard |
349 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 2996 grt / 1830 nrt / |
332.2 ft |
48.1 ft |
21.9 ft |
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| Engine builder |
David Rowan & Co., Glasgow |
| Engine detail |
| T3cyl (21.5, 35.5, 60 x 39in), 225nhp, 1- Screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Kelvin Shipping Co. Ltd. - H. Hogarth & Sons, Ardrossan |
Ardrossan |
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| Other names |
| 1937 SANTAROSA - 1941 RAMAPO |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1937 Alberto Tomaso Rosasco, Genoa
12/1941 Seized at Norfolk, Virginia by USA - operated by United States War Shipping Administration, Panama - Waterman S.S. Agency Ltd. |
| Vessel history |
10/06/1940 at Philadelphia and laid up
03/1941 detained there
25/07/1941 requisitioned |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1942 |
Torpedoed 16/09/1942 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Torpedoed and sunk by U.108 in position 35.10N - 65.50W, on passage Riverport to New York, no survivors. |
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Santarosa
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