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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| PHIDIAS |
135459 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1913 |
03/04/1913 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer 2 Masts |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Archibald McMillan & Son, Dumbarton |
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447 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 5623 grt / 3565 nrt / |
415.5 ft |
56.0 ft |
28.1 ft |
28 ft 1 in |
| Engine builder |
David Rowan & Co., Glasgow |
| Engine detail |
1-screw, T3cyl (27, 44, 73 x 48in), 480nhp, 11 knots
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate S.N. Co. Ltd. - Lamport & Holt Ltd., Liverpool |
Liverpool |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
| 1934 Lamport & Holt Line Ltd., Liverpool |
| Vessel history |
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1941 |
Gunfire 08/06/1941 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Sunk by U46 gunfire norh of the Azores in 48.25N - 26.12W on passage Clyde for Table Bay. 8 crew were lost out of 51. She was carrying government stores, ammunition and 14 aircraft. |
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Phidias
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