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Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
JAPARA |
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NLD |
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Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
1876 |
19/06/1876 |
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Vessel type |
Vessel description
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Passenger / Cargo
| Iron Screw Steamer |
Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
Caird & Company, Greenock |
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203 |
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Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
1209 grt / 932 nrt / |
256.2 ft |
31.6 ft |
17.3 ft |
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Engine builder |
Caird & Company, Greenock |
Engine detail |
C2cyl (32" & 60" x 39"), 187nhp, 600ihp 1-screw. 9 knots.
1892 New boilers - 2 cylindrical steel boilers 75 lb/sq.in. - builder unknown |
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First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
Nederlandsch Indische Stoomvaart Mij., Batavia |
Batavia |
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Other names |
1916 GUAN KIM SENG - (By 1921) YUE YING WA |
Subsequent owner and registration history |
1891 Koninklijke Paketvaart Mij, Batavia 1916 Hah Him Seng, Singapore (not registered) 21/01/1921 Admitted to British Register at Hong Kong as YUE YING WA and allocated ON 151418 Cheong Yue Steamship Co. Ltd, Victoria, Hong Kong |
Vessel history |
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Remarks |
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End year |
Fate / Status |
1925 |
Missing 08/08/1925 |
Disposal Detail |
Missing after sailing 08/08/1925 from Hoihow for Hong Kong, presumed lost in a typhoon. |
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Japara
Image courtesy of : Joe MacMillan Collection
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