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Transit
1889 General cargo

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Buildingyard: Wood, Skinner & Co., Newcastle

Built year: 1889

Yard no: 13

 

Tonnage: GRT: 1334/ NET: 1027/ TDW: 2000

Dims : LOA: 250,0/ BR: 35,0/ DR: 15,6ft

Machinery: 3-cyl tripleexp steam by North Eastern Eng. Co., Newcastle

IHP: 750

Speed: 9

THE FIRST STEAMSHIP BUILT FOR ACCOUNT WILH. WILHELMSEN

Photo: WW Fleetlist 150years

19.03.1889: Launched 

30.04.1889: Completed. Price paid: NOK 326.977,24

00.00.1905: Sold to T. Tasaka, Japan. Renamed TAKESHIMA MARU

00.00.1909: Sold to S. Uyeda, Japan. Manager subsequenlty became H. Koyanagi & Co., Japan

00.00.1915: Sold to S. Koyanagi, Japan

00.00.1920: Sold to Busai Kisen K.K., Japan

17.01.1922: Left Dairen for Moji and disappeared. No crew was found

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