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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| EGBA |
136655 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1914 |
17/12/1913 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Harland & Wolff Ltd., Govan |
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444 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 4989 grt / 3024 nrt / |
405.9 ft |
54.3 ft |
23.5 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Harland & Wolff Ltd., Govan |
| Engine detail |
| 1-screw T3cyl (26", 44", 74"-51") 574 nhp 12 knots |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| African Steamship Co. - Elder, Dempster & Co. Ltd., London |
London |
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| Other names |
| 1943 EMPIRE SEVERN |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
04/1933 Tranferred to Elder Dempster Lines Ltd. Registered Liverpool.
09/08/1943 Sold for £4989 to Ministry of War Transport. Managers Elder Dempster Lines Ltd. |
| Vessel history |
04/04/1914 Trials.
1915 Engaged on trooping duties.
1940 Tonnage opening closed. 6681 grt., 4815 nrt.
10/05/1941 In position 10.57N 29.13W came across and rescued survivors in boat No.3 from Lamport & Holt vessel LASSELL which had been torpedoed on the evening of 30th. April about 300 miles south-west of the Cape Verde Islands.
12/05/1942 Voyage UK for Halifax (Captain H. Welton) attacked by submarine, torpedo passed 150 feet ahead of vessel.
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| Remarks |
| Passenger accommodation: 12 |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1946 |
Scuttled 12/10/1946 |
| Disposal Detail |
| 12/10/1946 Scuttled in the Atlantic loaded with gas ammunition and high explosives. |
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