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Name: XANTHA
Type: Yacht
Launched: 16/08/1867
Completed: 08/1867
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 217
Dimensions: 106grt, 72nrt, 116.0 x 18.8 x 9.0ft; (1875: 132grt, 85nrt, 134.0ft);
(1901: 204grt, 104nrt, 148.4 x 19.3 x 9.9ft)
Engines: I2cyl (24 & 24 x 18ins), 40hp; (1888: T4cyl (13, 21, 24 & 24 x 18ins) 49nhp);
(1941: Oil engine, 3cyl)
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow; (1888: E Scott, Newcastle);
(1941: Benz & Cie, Mannheim)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 56071
History:
27/08/1867 Lord Alfred Paget, Gloucester & Colchester; registered at Newcastle
1871 Registered at Colchester
1873 Thomas Chivers, Colchester
1875 Viscount Macduff, Colchester
1877 William Barneby, Herefordshire
1887 Harry S Edwards, Corbridge
1888 Registered at South Shields; renamed SOLYST
1892 Charles McIver, Liverpool; registered at Liverpool; renamed SEAMAID
1895 John L Phipps, Windsor
1901 DE Hadji Constanti et Frere, Syra; renamed KAPHIREUS
1916 Thrakiki Atmoploia, Syra
192x Socratis Goumaris & Co, Salonica; renamed ESPEROS
1930 Georgios Mylonas, Salonica
1933 Dimiter Kenkov, Varna; renamed MACEDONIA or MAKEDONIYA
1941 Compañía Mediterránea de Vapores Ltda, Panama; renamed STRUMA
02/1942 Sank
Comments: 1875: Lengthened to 134.0ft
1892: Also seen as SEA MAID (two words)
1901: Lengthened to 148.4ft & converted into a cargo ship
02/1942: Torpedoed & sunk in the Black Sea by Soviet submarine SHCH-213
On a voyage from Istanbul to sea carrying Jewish refugees
Only one survivor from a total of 791 x passengers & crew


Above photo as XANTHA is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as STRUMA is courtesy of Photoship

Newcastle Courant, Friday, 23/08/1867