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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| NILE |
93288 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1886 |
08/06/1886 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo General
| Iron Sailing Vessel 4 Masted Ship |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Russell & Co, Port Glasgow |
Kingston Yard |
153 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 2163 grt / 2079 nrt / |
283.5 ft |
40.5 ft |
24.6 ft |
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| Engine builder |
, |
| Engine detail |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Alfred Brown (mgr A. Brown), Glasgow. |
Glasgow |
02/07/1886 |
| Other names |
| 1911 THOR II |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
By 1910 The Alliance Shipping Co.Ltd., St Vincent St., Glasgow.
1911 sold to Thor Dahl, Sandefjord, Norway, and renamed THOR I |
| Vessel history |
| at some stage converted to barque rig |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1917 |
Torpedoed 04/02/1917 |
| Disposal Detail |
| 4/2/1917 torpedoed and sunk by U-45 eighty miles SW of the Irish coast on voyage from South Georgia carrying whale oil. |
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Nile at Ayr
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