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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| PARTHIA |
63797 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1870 |
10/09/1870 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo
| Iron Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| William Denny & Bros, Dumbarton |
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148 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 3167 grt / 2214 nrt / |
360.5 ft |
40.4 ft |
19.0 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Denny & Company, Dumbarton |
| Engine detail |
C2cyl, 450hp, 1 screw
1885 T4cyl, 500hp by John Elder & Co., Glasgow |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| The British & North American Steam Packet Company, Glasgow |
Glasgow |
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| Other names |
| 1892 VICTORIA - 1955 STRAITS NO 27 - 1956 STRAITS MARU |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
08/1878 Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd., Liverpool
12/1884 John Elder & Co.
1888 Guion Steamship Co. Ltd., London (1892, Liverpool)
1892 chartered to Northern Pacific Steamship Co
1898 North American Mail Steamship Co, Tacoma
1901 Northern Pacific Steamship Co, Tacoma
1904 Northwestern Steamship Co, Seattle
1908 Alaska Steamship Co.
1954 Straits Towing Co, Vancouver
1956 Japanese breakers for last voyage under tow |
| Vessel history |
1887/1891 loaned to Canadian Pacific Steamships, Vancouver
1884 sold to John Elder as part payment for UMBRIA and ETRURIA.
1941/1947 on War Shipping Administration (USA) service
1952 laid up
1954 sold to Dulien Steel Products for scrapping; hull converted to log barge
Towed to Osaka, Japan for breaking up by tug SUDBURY Converted to log barge.
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1956 |
Broken Up 16/10/1956 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Arribed under tow at Osaka for breaking. |
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