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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| SMERDIS |
137839 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1917 |
15/01/1917 |
03/1917 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Ardrossan Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Ardrossan |
The Shipyard |
267 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 1032 grt / 538 nrt / |
200.4 ft |
30.7 ft |
19.1 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Wm. Beardmore & Co. Ltd., Dalmuir |
| Engine detail |
| T3cyl (16, 26, 44 x 33in), 149nhp, 1 Screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| J. & P. Hutchison, Glasgow |
Glasgow |
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| Other names |
| 1923 MEMPHIS - 1938 CAID KEBIR - 1954 MEZIANE |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1919 J. & P. Hutchison Ltd, Glasgow.
1934 Moss Hutchison Line Ltd, Glasgow.
1938 Union d'Entreprises Marocaine, Casablanca.
1952 Cie. Orano-Marocaine, Casablanca.
1954 Soc. Marocaine de Gerance Maritime, Casablanca |
| Vessel history |
16/12/1922 fouled anchor, capsized and sank in the Mersey on a voyage from Bordeaux to Liverpool.
23/01/1923 refloated and beached.
28/02/1923 refloated again, repaired and renamed MEMPHIS |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1957 |
Broken Up 26/10/1957 |
| Disposal Detail |
19/04/1955 sank at Rouen after being struck by lighter ROMARJEAN II.
31/05/1955 Refloated but considered a CTL.
26/10/1957 arrived New Waterway for delivery to Dutch breakers. |
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Memphis
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Memphis - Old Ship Picture Galleries
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