D/S Mexicano
1911/14 General Cargo
Photo: N/A
Buildingyard: Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd., Sunderland
Built year: 1911
Yard no: 634
Tonnage: GRT: 3694/ NET: 2312/ TDW: 5824
Dims : LOA: 346,0/ BR: 46,8/ DR: 24,8ft
Machinery: 3-cyl triple exp by J. Dickinson & Sons Ltd
IHP: 2030
Speed: 11,00knots
Passengers: 40 on 1st class/ 64 on 3rd class
06.12.1911: Launched as MEXICANO for Norge Mexico Gulf Linien (G.M. Bryde). Reg in Kristiania (Oslo)
17.02.1912: Completed
06.01.1914: Taken over by Wilh. Wilhelmsen when thecompany aquired Norge Mexico Gulf Linien. Reg in Tønsberg. Price paid: NOK 892.971,52
11.04.1934: Sold to Lindholmen-Motala, Gothenburg for scrapping. Resold for further trading to Glückmanns Metallaffär - later Rederi A/B Ruth
(Leonard Glückmann). Renamed RUTH
07.05.1942: Damaged by allied airattack off Vlieland. On passage from Rotterdam to Gothenburg with a cargo of coal. Beached to avoid sinking.
Condemned as beyond repair