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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| SYRIA |
113959 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1901 |
07/05/1901 |
12/06/1901 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer 2 Masts |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., Govan |
Linthouse |
391 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 6660 grt / 4184 nrt / |
450.0 ft |
52.3 ft |
30.5 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., Govan |
| Engine detail |
| 2 x T3cyl (22.5, 36, 60 x 48in), 682nhp, 2- Screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Glasgow |
Glasgow |
12/06/1901 |
| Other names |
| 1924 GIOVANNA |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
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| Vessel history |
1901/1903 Transport for the Boer War.
2/10/1914 requisitioned for use as a Hospital Ship and served in Mesopotamia
10/2/1920 Returned |
| Remarks |
| see also; http://forums.clydemaritime.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=9924 |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1924 |
Broken Up |
| Disposal Detail |
| 1924 sold to John Cashmore, Newport for breaking, resold to Cognati Schiaffino and renamed GIOVANNA for delivery voyage, lying at La Spezia by 27/10/1924 for breaking. |
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