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Name: CHAIKA
Type: Barge
Launched: 1896
Completed: 1896
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 644
Dimensions: 184grt, 140.0 x 21.0 x 5.0(draft)ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: May have been rigged for sail
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1896 Enock Emery
1896 Russian Imperial Army - Artillery department, Nikolayevsk-on-Amur
31/05/1920 Sank
Comments: Barge for the tug SOKOL (Armstrong Mitchell No 643)
Enock Emery were the owners for the delivery only
For use in the Amur river area
31/05/1920: Destroyed by Red Russian partisans - blown-up & sunk near Nikolayevsk