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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| SOURABAYA DOCK |
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NLD |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| c1860 |
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 |
| / / 1000 disp |
250 ft |
70 ft |
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| Engine builder |
, |
| Engine detail |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| W Cores de Vries, Batavier (Jakarta) |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
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| Vessel history |
Not assembled on the Clyde. All 75,000+ machined parts and equipment forwarded in three ships for assembly under Randolph Elder supervision at Grissi(?), Java, Netherlands East Indies
23/11/1862 launched and taken to Surabaya for outfitting |
| Remarks |
Designed and supervised by engineer R W Thomson
No yard number
Said to have been the first floating dock built of iron to have floated. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1862 |
Sank |
| Disposal Detail |
| c1862 careless manoevering of the dock before pumps fully fitted caused it to sink in deep water |
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| No photos available for this vessel |
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