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Name: IOSSIFOGLU
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 24/03/1924
Completed: 05/1924
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 1217
Dimensions: 4867grt, 2991nrt, 400.8 x 53.5 x 25.7ft
Engines: Oil engine, 2SCSA, Neptune type, 6cyl (22.5 x 45ins), 526nhp
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Reg Number: 147657
History:
19/05/1924 Ionian Marine & Land Investment Co Ltd, London
1927 Moorgate Investment & Agency Co Ltd (WA Souter), London
1928 Renamed TITANIAN
1936 Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd (WA Souter & Co), Newcastle
1937 A/S Rederiet Titanian (Hilmar Reksten), Bergen
18/05/1948 Broken up
Comments: 30/03/1947: Damaged by a mine 20 miles west of Texel
On a voyage from Antwerp to Oslo in ballast
18/05/1948: Towed from Rotterdam for breaking up at Stavanger


Above photo as TITANIAN is copyright of the City of Vancouver Archives - Walter Frost collection. Click to enlarge/Back to return

Above photo as TITANIAN is copyright of the City of Vancouver Archives - Walter Frost collection. Click to enlarge/Back to return

Above photo as TITANIAN is courtesy of Richard Cox

The Scotsman, Saturday, 29/03/1924