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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| RHESUS |
131363 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1911 |
27/05/1911 |
21/07/1911 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Greenock |
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433 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 6719 grt / 4295 nrt / |
443.5 ft |
52.8 ft |
36.1 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Greenock |
| Engine detail |
| 1- Screw T.3-cyl. (30", 50" & 83" x 60") engine (No.497), 4,600 IHP. 13½ kts. |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| China Mutual Steam Nav Co (A. Holt & Co, managers), Liverpool. |
Liverpool |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
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| Vessel history |
25/02/1910 Ordered
24/05/1910 Keel laid.
Completed at a cost of £80,000.
19/12/1915 until 30/11/1916 Expeditionary Force transport No. G 081, moving troops to the Mediterranean and Mesopotamia.
01/12/1916 until 31/05/1917 On Portugese Government service.
14/06/1917 Missed by a torpedo fired by the German submarine U 49 in a position 50.36N., 13.55W., S. W. of Ireland.
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1950 |
Broken Up 08/07/1950 |
| Disposal Detail |
| British Iron & Steel Corporation and allocated to Smith & Houston Ltd., for demolition at Port Glasgow. |
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Rhesus c1928 Liverpool
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Rhesus
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