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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| FREMONA |
93470 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1887 |
15/11/1887 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo General
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Gourlay Brothers & Co., Dundee |
Camperdown |
132 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 2922 grt / 1840 nrt / |
328.0 ft |
42.2 ft |
25.9 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Gourlay Brothers & Co., Dundee |
| Engine detail |
| T3cyl. (26, 41 & 66 - 48)" 160psi. 295nhp. 1-Screw. |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| William Thomson & Sons, Dundee |
Dundee |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1901 S.S. Fremona Co Ltd - manager William Thomson & Sons, Dundee.
1907 Cairn Line of Steamships Ltd. - Cairns, Noble & Co., Dundee / Newcastle-on-Tyne |
| Vessel history |
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1917 |
Torpedoed 31/07/1917 |
| Disposal Detail |
| 31/07/1917 torpedoed by UC.47 when 10 miles N by W of Ile de Bas on passage Montreal for Saint Nazaire and Leith with grain, flour and timber. 11 lives lost. |
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FREMONA
Image courtesy of : Coll. of Richard Cox
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