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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| HESPERIAN |
124266 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1908 |
20/12/1907 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo Refrigerated
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., Govan |
Linthouse |
425 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 10920 grt / 6124 nrt / |
485.5 ft |
60.3 ft |
30.0 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., Govan |
| Engine detail |
| 2- Screw. 2xT3Cyl. (27. 45 & 75 - 51)in. 803nhp |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Allan Line S.S. Co. Ltd. - J. & A. Allan, Glasgow |
Glasgow |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
| 1910 managers Allan Bros. & Co. U.K. Ltd. |
| Vessel history |
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| Remarks |
| 1460 Passengers |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1915 |
Torpedoed 06/09/1915 |
| Disposal Detail |
| 04/09/1915 torpedoed by U-20 when 85 miles SW by S of Fastnet on passage Liverpool for Montreal and sank two days later about 130 miles west of Queenstown while under tow. 32 lives lost. |
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Hesperian
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