Irkutsk 1903

TYNE BUILT SHIPS

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Name:	IRKUTSK
Type:	Passenger Refrigerated Cargo Ship
Launched:	03/03/1903
Completed:	07/1903
Builder:	Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd
Yard:	Hebburn
Yard Number:	80
Dimensions:	2447grt, 1547nrt, 290.5 x 40.0 x 25.6ft
Engines:	T3cyl (22, 38 & 64 x 42ins), 265nhp
Engines by:	Wallsend Slipway Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion:	1 x Screw, 13.0knots
Construction:	Steel
Reg Number:	n/a; (1940: 167450)
History:
07/1903	Handelshaus Gerb Lassman, Windau
1910	Helmsing & Grimm, Riga; renamed IMPERATOR NICOLAI II
1919	Det Forenede Dampskibs Selskab, Copenhagen
1920	Renamed DAGMAR
09/04/1940	Government of Great Britain
1940	Ministry of Shipping (G Nisbet & Co), London; renamed DAGMAR I
09/04/1941	Sank

Comments:	09/04/1940: Seized by British Government at Manchester
	09/04/1941: Sank in German air attack at position 35.42N - 14.38W
	On a voyage from Malaga for Liverpool with a cargo of oranges