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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| AGAPANTHUS |
99876 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1893 |
21/12/1892 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo General
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., Govan |
Linthouse |
341 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 4409 grt / 2866 nrt / |
380.0 ft |
46.0 ft |
27.5 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., Govan |
| Engine detail |
| T3cyl (26, 41, 67 x 48in), 327nhp, 1- Screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| J. B. Murray & Co., Glasgow |
Glasgow |
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| Other names |
| 1911 ESPERANCA |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1909 Park S.S. Co. Ltd. - Colonel J. Smith Park, Glasgow
1911 A/S South Atlantic - Lorenttz Bruun, Tonsberg |
| Vessel history |
| 1912-1915 fitted as a whale factory ship |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1917 |
Scuttled 16/01/1917 |
| Disposal Detail |
| 15/01/1917 captured by U.48 and scuttled the next day in 43.03N - 10.12W, 165 miles north of Cape Finisterre on passage Spezia for Cardiff in ballast. |
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Esperanca ex, Agapanthus
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