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Name: KONGSEE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 26/10/1878
Completed: 12/1878
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 367
Dimensions: 1072grt, 696nrt, 248.0 x 31.2 x 17.9ft
Engines: C2cyl (33 & 66 x 42ins), 200nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 79656
History:
18/12/1878 Hermann Katz, London
1879 Registered at Singapore
1883 Atjeh Steam Ship Co Ltd, London
1883 Nederland Indische Stoomvaart Mij, Batavia
1891 TC Bogaardt, Singapore
1891 Ocean Steamship Co, Liverpool
1892 NV Nederlandsche Stoomvaart Mij "Oceaan", Amsterdam
1895 TC Bogaardt, Singapore
1897 Tan Kim Tian Steam Ship Co Ltd, Singapore
1899 Warner, Barnes & Co, Manila
1902 Government of the USA; renamed LISCUM
1922 Tuason & Sampedro, Manila
1924 Renamed NUESTRA SEŅORA DEL ALBA
1927 Hercules Lumber Co Inc, Manila
1934 Yung Shun Steam Ship Co (TA Chow), Newchang; renamed YUNG SHUN
1936 Reported sold to Japanese owners
1939 Broken up
Comments: 1902: Used by the US Army as a transport and a cable ship
1939: Broken up at Shanghai


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