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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| KANGTING |
154004 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1925 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| River Steamer Passenger/Cargo
| Steel Steam Turbine |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Yarrow & Co. Ltd., Glasgow |
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1513 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 435 grt / 221 nrt / 465 tons disp. |
149.5 ft |
26.6 ft |
7.7 ft |
6 ft 2 in |
| Engine builder |
Yarrow & Co. Ltd., Glasgow |
| Engine detail |
Twin Brown-Curtis steam turbines, single reduction gearing 1700SHP 10kn 2-screw
Two Yarrow watertube boilers 250lb/sq.in. |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| China Navigation Co. Ltd., 8 Billiter Square, London EC3 |
Hong Kong |
26/10/1926 |
| Other names |
| 1935 GAEKWAR |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
02/11/1926 reg London
25/07/1930 reg Shanghai (GBR flag)
01/01/1949 reg Hong Kong |
| Vessel history |
Assembled at Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co Ltd, Hong Kong
For Upper Yangtse River, Chungking-Suifu sevices
2/1929 on a voyage from Changsha to Chunking, a fire broke out and gutted the engine room, repairs were uneconomic
1930 converted to an oil storage barge/hulk by Shanghai Dock & Engineering Co Ltd, and based at Shanghai: 337nrt
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
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| Disposal Detail |
| Ultimate fate not known. |
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