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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| TYNDAREUS |
137527 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1916 |
01/08/1916 |
11/10/1916 |
| 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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460 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 11347 grt / 7172 nrt / |
507.0 ft |
63.2 ft |
41.6 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Greenock |
| Engine detail |
| 2-Screw. Two T.3-cyl. (22½", 38" & 65" x 54") engines (set No. 523), driving twin propeller shafts. 6,000 IHP. 14 kts. |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Ocean Steamship Company, (Alfred Holt & Co, managers), Liverpool |
Liverpool |
15/11/1916 |
| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
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| Vessel history |
3.3.1914 Ordered
30.3.1914 Keel laid.
Completed at a cost of £203,014.
21/11/1916 Delivered, and taken up under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
06/02/1917 Whilst on a voyage from Liverpool via Table Bay to Yokohama with troops and stores, exploded a mine in a position 10 miles off Cape Agulhas and was towed into Simonstown naval base, S. Africa, for repairs. The mine was laid by the German raider WOLF.
1920 Resumed commercial service.
1940 - 1946 Employed as a troopship and supply ship.
1949 Converted for pilgrim trades.
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1960 |
Broken Up 09/09/1960 |
| Disposal Detail |
| 09/09/1960 Arrived at Hong Kong for demolition. |
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TYNDAREUS
Image courtesy of : Unknown
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TYNDAREUS
Image courtesy of : Old Ship Picture Galleries
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TYNDAREUS
Image courtesy of : Old Ship Picture Galleries
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Tyndareus after hitting a mine
Image courtesy of : Unknown
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TYNDAREUS
Image courtesy of : Malcolm Cranfield / G. Bunschoten collection
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TYNDAREUS in 02/1932
Image courtesy of : City of Vancouver Archives - Walter Frost
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