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Name: SOLDIER PRINCE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 21/08/1883
Completed: 1883
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 77
Dimensions: 1368grt, 801nrt, 245.2 x 34.1 x 17.3ft
Engines: C2cyl (29 & 56 x 36ins), 133nhp); (1896: T3cyl (16.5, 28 & 46 x 33ins), 118nhp)
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend; (1896: S & H Morton & Co, Leith)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 84892
History:
1883 James Knott, North Shields
1895 Prince Line (1895) Ltd (James Knott), North Shields
1895 Chr Salvesen & Co, Leith
1896 Renamed FOLDA
1916 Lucovich, Parsons & Co Ltd, London
1916 Franco-British SS Co Ltd (Olivier & Co Ltd), London
1920 Renamed CITY OF MONTDIDIER
1920 Anglo-Celtic Shipping Co Ltd (J Griffiths), Leith
1921 Franco-British SS Co Ltd (Olivier & Co Ltd), Leith
1922 Hydra SS Co Ltd (Geo M Chrussachi), Leith
1922 Rederi A/B Majviken (C A Berglund), Gothenburg; renamed MAJA
1929 A/B John Millars Eftr (E Rundberg), Gothenburg
04/07/1936 Sank
Comments: 1896: Existing quadrupal engine tripled.
04/07/1936: Sank after going ashore outside Trysunda (Sweden)
On a voyage from Hartlepool to Kopmanholmen with coal.


Above photo as FOLDA copyright of the Robert Boman Collection

Above photo as MAJA copyright of the Robert Boman Collection