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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| ASTYANAX |
120943 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1906 |
27/03/1906 |
02/05/1906 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Greenock |
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405 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 4872 grt / 3021 nrt / |
392.3 ft |
49.2 ft |
28.7 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Greenock |
| Engine detail |
| 1- Screw T.3-cyl. (25", 41" & 70" x 48") engine (No. 475), 2,000 IHP. 10 kts. |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| China Mutual Steam Navigation Company Ltd., (Alfred Holt & Co, managers), Liverpool. |
Liverpool |
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| Other names |
| 1930 OSCAR II |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
| 06/1930 Oscar Ltd., and reduced to a coaling hulk at Singapore, renamed OSCAR II. |
| Vessel history |
21/08/1905 Ordered
20/10/1905 Keel laid.
Completed at a cost of £55,035.
09/12/1916 Escaped from a pursuing submarine off southern Ireland.
09/05/1917 Escaped from the pursuing German submarine U 62, in a position 50.45N., 12.45W., off S. W. Ireland.
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1942 |
Scuttled |
| Disposal Detail |
15/02/1942 Scuttled at Singapore.
06/1952 Wreck reported in a position 1.16.42N by 103.52.36E.,
by 1956 Wreck had been removed.
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Astynax
Image courtesy of : Walter E. Frost Vancouver Archives
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Astynax
Image courtesy of : Walter E. Frost Vancouver Archives
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