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Name: CESAREVITCH GEORGE or TSESAREWITCH, TSESAREVITCH, GEORGII & GEORGY
Type: Passenger Mail Ship
Launched: 05/10/1895
Completed: 01/1896
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 332
Dimensions: 1977grt, 1131nrt, 298.0 x 37.0 x 16.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (27, 44 & 72 x 48ins), 404nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 14.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
01/1896 Russian Steam Navigation & Trading Company, Odessa
08/1914 Imperial Russian Navy
05/1917 Renamed RYLEYEV
05/1918 Government of Germany
04/1919 White Russian Navy - Black Sea Fleet
04/1919 Renamed CESAREVITCH GEORGE
12/1920 Russian Steam Navigation & Trading Company, Odessa
12/1920 Registered at Paris, French flag
1922 Company renamed Cie Russe de Navigation à Vapeur et de Commerce, Marseille
1927 Broken up
Comments: 08/1914: Requisitioned as a minelayer in the Black Sea
05/1918: Under German control to 11/1918
05/1918 - 1920: Russian civil war
04/1919: Used as an auxiliary cruiser
14/11/1920: Sailed from Yalta with White Russian refugees
1925: Shipowner bankrupt. For sale at auction, no bidders
1927: Sold for breaking up


Above photo as CESAREVITCH GEORGE is copyright of Lemachko BV