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Official Number:                       94507 

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Builder:                                   C. Mitchell & Co, Low Walker on Tyne

Launched:                               21 December 1879

Call Sign:                                  KRVT

Into Service:                            November 1917

Out of service:                         1919

Fate:                                        2005 deleted from the Register

Items of historic interest involving this ship: –

Background Data:  One of a group of additional requisitioned by the Admiralty during WW1

Career Data:

21 December 1879 launched by C Mitchel & Co, Low Walker as Yard No: 392 named Nora for J B Perret, Marseilles, France

December 1879 completed

1888 owners now D H Macfarlane, London and renamed Hiawatha

30 May 1888 Register Opened at Southampton as Nr. 10/1888 in the Register Book

3 August 1891 sailed Belfast

29 August 1891 sailed Barrow

1892a owner now Earl of Eglington and Winton, Southampton

1892b owner now James D Baird, Southampton

28 October 1893 arrived San Franscisco from Leith

1909 owner now Wm. Baird, Southampton

1910 owner now Max Schultz, Hamburg – name unchanged

1911 owners now H Hiller & W Lang, Hamburg and renamed Clara

1915 owners now R E V James, Southampton and renamed Polygon

1916 owners now Vincent  S E Grech, London and renamed La Valette

1917a owner now H M Grayson, London

1917b owner now Ocean Salvage Company Limited., London 

November 1917 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Salvage Vessel – name unchanged

1919 returned to her owner – name unchanged

1922 owners restyles aas Ocean Salvage & Towage Co. Ltd., London

1930 owner now Turk Gemi Kurtarma, Istanbul and renamed Akbas

1938 owner now Denizbank UM, Istanbul

1952 owner now Denizbank Bankasi TAO, Istanbul

1966 now named Yeni Gundogdu

1984 owner now Tahir Kosi and renamed B Kartal

1993 owner now Ali Tonbayogla, Istabbul

2005 deleted from Register