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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| DEVOLANT |
111233 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1899 |
22/11/1899 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Dredger Bucket Ladder
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| William Simons & Co. Ltd., Renfrew |
London Works |
368 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 586 grt / 233 nrt / 1200 bm |
182.0 ft |
36.1 ft |
12.2 ft |
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| Engine builder |
, |
| Engine detail |
Twin C2cyl 80nhp 7kn, 2-screw
(separate pair of compound engines for the bucket ladder) |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| William Brown, Renfrew |
Glasgow |
12/11/1899 |
| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
| Ordered by the Russian Government |
| Vessel history |
Launched complete
Registered in UK for delivery voyage |
| Remarks |
Barge-loading bucket ladder dredger for service at Nikolayev, Black Sea
Each bucket has a capacity of 36 cub. ft., or fully two tons of material, giving a lifting capacity of 1890 tons p/h.
Named for Russian military engineer and Minister of Transport General Franz Devolant (1752-1818)? |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1900 |
Missing |
| Disposal Detail |
21/12/1900 sailed Greenock for Odessa but not heard from again
It was supposed she foundered during bad weather in the English Channel. 19 lost.
1899 British registry closed (but still in 1910 MNL) |
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Devolant
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