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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| SAN JORGE |
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PER |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1864 |
shipped |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Floating Dock
| Iron No Propulsion |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Randolph, Elder & Co., Govan |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| / / 3000 disp, 8000t lwt |
300 ft |
100 ft |
38 ft 3in |
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| Engine builder |
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| Engine detail |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Callao Floating Dock Co, Callao (Pacific Steam Navigation Co, Liverpool) |
Callao |
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| Other names |
| ST GEORGE |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
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| Vessel history |
Not assembled on the Clyde. All machined parts and equipment forwarded in four ships for assembly under Randolph Elder supervision at Callao
24/4/1866 launched at Callao, although incomplete, to remove it as a large target during Spanish naval attacks of April/May.
4/7/1866 in service |
| Remarks |
Designed and supervised by engineer R W Thomson
No yard number |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1907 |
Foundered 22/07/1907 |
| Disposal Detail |
22/7/1907 reported by that the dock had sprung a leak and foundered at Callao in position 12°3½'S 77°10½'W
The wreck would be dispersed |
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Dock in service
Image courtesy of : Illustrated London News, 26/1/1867
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