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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| ANAXO |
109246 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1899 |
03/03/1899 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo General
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Russell & Co, Port Glasgow |
Kingston Yard |
438 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 2986 grt / 1922 nrt / |
324.9 ft |
45.4 ft |
22.15 ft |
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| Engine builder |
J G Kincaid & Co. Ltd., Greenock |
| Engine detail |
1- Screw. T3Cyl. (24", 40" & 65" x 42") 289NHP, 1700 IHP, 10 knots.
2-steel boilers 170 lbs/sq.in. built 1899 by North Eastern Marine Engineering Co., Wallsend-on-Tyne. |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Robert Kelley Kelley, 25 Castle Street, Liverpool |
Liverpool |
28/03/1899 |
| Other names |
| 1899 VASCONIA |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1900 Cyprien Fabre & Co, Marseilles
1903 Cie. Francasie de Nav. a Vapeur - Cyp. Fabre et Cie., Marseille
1908 Otto Banck, Solvesborg
1916 Joh. Saetveit, Bergen
1916 D/S A/S Vasconia - O. Hafstad, Bergen
1917 manager Odd Berg, Christiania |
| Vessel history |
| 09/10/1906 Scuttled at Madeira to extinguish a fire on passge Marseille for New York, refloated, towed to Marseille and repaired by Solvesborgs Skeppsvarf |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1918 |
Mined 09/04/1918 |
| Disposal Detail |
Mined and sank in the Alexandria entrance channel, on passage Naples for Massowah and Calcutta.
Mine laid previous day by UC.34 |
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Vasconia
Image courtesy of : Old Ship Picture Galleries
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