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Name: MARIA
Type: River Tug
Launched: n/a
Completed: 1896
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 651
Dimensions: 236grt, 175.0 x 24.0 x 3.0(draft)ft
Engines: Diag C2cyl, 130nhp, 600ihp
Engines by:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Syeel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1895 Amur River Steam Navigation Co Ltd, Khabarovsk, Russia
1895 Renamed NERONOV (also seen as NERONOFF)
1911 V Alekseev & Sons, Khabarovsk
1918 Unknown owner
1922 Soskin Port, Harbin, Manchuria
c1923 Renamed BAIKAL
1926 Government of China; unknown name
08/1945 Government of the USSR
1946 Government of the USSR - Amur River Shipping Co; renamed NERONOV
1948 Renamed TRUD
1959 Broken up
Comments: Not included in TIC launch records so probably supplied in kit form
08/06/1895: Shipped to owners onboard WILHELM
11/1896: Launched on the river Amur at Nikolayevsk-on-Amur
1918 - 1921: Russian civil war, unknown owners
1922: White Russian control on the Songhua River
1926: Siezed by the Chinese Government
1932: Manchuria seized by Japanese forces
08/1945: Soviet war prize from the Japanese
1946: Described as rotten, not for use without repair
1948: Probably repaired, renamed & put back into service