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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 (18,38x27ins), 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 |
| 1919 INDEPENDENCE - 1921 MAVIS - 1929 SOUND FISHER - 1939 GUARAREMA |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
28/1/1919 "Neptunus" Société d'Armement - mng M Smits & Co, Antwerp - reg Antwerp
1921 General Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London - reg London
1929 James Fisher & Sons Ltd, Barrow-in-Furness
1939 Empresa Internacional de Transportes Ltda, Rio de Janeiro |
| Vessel history |
1921 500grt 225nrt
1937 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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