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Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
WAR AVON |
142774 |
GBR |
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Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
1919 |
10/1918 |
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Vessel type |
Vessel description
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Coaster General Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer |
Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
Ardrossan Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Ardrossan |
The Shipyard |
302 |
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Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
501 grt / 226 nrt / |
142.4 ft |
26.1 ft |
10.9 ft |
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Engine builder |
Aitchison, Blair Ltd., Clydebank |
Engine detail |
C2cyl (18,38x27"), 59nhp 500ihp 9kn, 1-screw |
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First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
The Shipping Controller, London - mng W A Savage Ltd, Liverpool |
London |
27/01/1919 |
Other names |
12/02/1919 INDEPENDANCE - 13/081921 MAVIS - 01/06/1929 SOUND FISHER - 1939 GUARAREMA |
Subsequent owner and registration history |
28/1/1919 "Neptunus" Société d'Armement - mng M Smits & Co, Antwerp - reg Antwerp 13/08/1921 General Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London - reg London 18/04/1929 James Fisher & Sons Ltd, Barrow-in-Furness 02/1939 Empresa Internacional de Transportes Ltda, Rio de Janeiro |
Vessel history |
1921 500grt 225nrt 01/05/1937 re-registered as lengthened: 154.8 x 26.1 x 10.9ft, 548grt 274nrt |
Remarks |
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End year |
Fate / Status |
1949 |
Collision 04/03/1949 |
Disposal Detail |
Sank after collision with ss BRITANNIA inside Santos Bar off Ilha das Palmas (23.59S 46.19W) when outward from Santos in ballast. |
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Sound Fisher
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