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Name: WAR JAVELIN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 11/05/1918
Completed: 09/1918
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 211
Dimensions: 2343grt, 1327nrt, 285.0 x 42.1 x 18.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (22, 36 & 59 x 39ins), 265nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 142646
History:
16/09/1918 The Shipping Controller (Richards Turpin Shipping Ltd), London
1919 Ashwin & Co, London; renamed PINEWIN
1920 Essex Line Ltd (Meldrum & Swinson), London
1921 All-Russian Co-operative Society Ltd, London; renamed ARCOS
1923 Arcos Ltd, London
1924 Arcos Steamship Co Ltd, London
1925 Sovtorgflot, USSR, Arkhangelsk
1947 Sakhalin Shipping Co, Sakhalin
No later history known
Comments: British Government standard 'D' type cargo ship
From 05/1942 to 07/1943: Used as a transport in the Northern Fleet
1943: Transferred to the Far Eastern State Marine Shipping Co
26/06/1961: Taken out of service


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