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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| GLAUCUS |
106794 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1896 |
28/04/1896 |
15/06/1896 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Scott & Co., Greenock |
Cartsdyke East |
337 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 5573 grt / 3583 nrt / |
423.2 ft |
49.2 ft |
28.3 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Greenock Foundry Company, Greenock |
| Engine detail |
| 1- Screw T.3-cyl. (29", 50" & 82" x 60") engine (No. 384), 4,000 IHP. 13 kts. |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Ocean Steamship Company, (Alfred Holt & Co, managers), Liverpool |
Liverpool |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
| 06/06/1902 Owners restyled as the Ocean Steamship Company Ltd. |
| Vessel history |
06/1895 Ordered
Launched by Mrs Alfred Holt.
Completed at a cost of £61,609.
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1918 |
Torpedoed 03/06/1918 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Whilst on a voyage from Liverpool to Shanghai with general cargo, was sunk without warning, with a torpedo by the German submarine UB 68, in a position 37.33N., 12.15E., 20 miles W. from Cape Granitola, Sicily. Two of her crew were lost. |
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Glaucus
Image courtesy of : Old Ship Picture Galleries
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