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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| WYEFIELD |
108368 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1898 |
23/05/1898 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo General
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| William Hamilton & Co., Port Glasgow |
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134 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 3235 grt / 2089 nrt / |
329.4 ft |
45.5 ft |
23.8 ft |
16.2 ft |
| Engine builder |
David Rowan & Son, Glasgow |
| Engine detail |
| T3cyl (24, 40, 65 x 42in) 302nhp 1200ihp 9½kn, 1-screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| John R D Hickie (Hickie, Borman & Co), London |
London |
22/06/1898 |
| Other names |
| 1905 SHIOKUBI MARU |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
23/3/1901 The Steamship Wyefield Co Ltd - James H Lawson, Victoria BC - reg Victoria BC
1902 (foreign)
1903 The Steamship Wyefield Co Ltd - James H Lawson, Victoria BC - reg Victoria BC
1904 Western Steamship Co Ltd, Nanaimo BC - same manager
1905 Japanese Govt. - Navy Dept.
1907 Dept. of Commerce & Industry - Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Yawata
1935 Nippon Seitetsu K.K., Yawata |
| Vessel history |
| 30/01/1905 Captured by Japanese cruiser MUSASHI in Tsugaru Strait on passage San Francisco to Vladivostok with fodder, condemned by prize court |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1945 |
Mined 26/05/1945 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Mined and sank in 33.56N 131.11E, off Ube. |
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