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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| EMERALD WINGS |
132610 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1911 |
06/09/1911 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo General
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Russell & Co, Port Glasgow |
Kingston Yard |
629 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 3139 grt / 1985 nrt / |
331.3 ft |
49.0 ft |
19.2 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Clyde Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Port Glasgow |
| Engine detail |
| 1- Screw. T3Cyl. (23, 37 & 61 - 42)in. 180lb. 287nhp |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Wing Steamship Co.Ltd. - N.Hallett & Co., London / Sydney NSW |
London |
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| Other names |
| 1918 KILBAHA -1920 IRON BARON - 1952 VITTORIO Z |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1917 Limerick S.S. Co. Ltd, Sydney NSW / Limerick
1919 Margam Abbey S.S. Co. Ltd., Sydney NSW - Williams & Mordey, Cardiff
1919 Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd., Sydney NSW
1929 E. B. Aaby, Oslo
1937 E. B. Aaby's Rederi, Oslo
1952 Flotta 'Z' - Mario Zoboli, Genoa |
| Vessel history |
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| Remarks |
| 1944 September in convoy HX309 Halifax - Tyne. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1955 |
Collision 11/10/1955 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Sank following a collision with Dutch s.s. PRINS MAUITS in fog off Texel Island on passage Gdynia for Istanbul with cement. |
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Iron Baron
Image courtesy of : Old Ship Picture Galleries
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