Name: | AQUILA |
Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 29/06/1889 |
Completed: | 16/08/1889 |
Builder: | J Wigham Richardson & Co |
Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 234 |
Dimensions: | 2542grt.1400nrt, 1435dwt, 339.5 x 39.2 x 17.6ft |
Engines: | 2 x T3cyl (29.5, 45 & 75 x 42ins), 658nhp |
Engines by: | J Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 15.8knots (trials) |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
16/08/1889 | Soc di Nav Italia Fratelli Lavarello, Genoa |
1891 | Government of Chile; renamed CASMA |
1905 | Government of Ecuador; renamed MARANON |
1908 | Government of Chile; renamed CASMA |
02/01/1917 | Wrecked |
Comments: | Designed to be an emigrant liner for Italy to Argentina |
1232 x Emigrants, 6 x Officers, 7 x Engineers and 60 crew | |
Contract price £66865-7s-8d; Profit £1343-7s-2d | |
Found to be very extravagant on coal and was sold after only nine round trips | |
1891: For use as a naval transport | |
1905: On loan to Ecuador for use as a training ship. Returned in 1908 | |
02/01/1917: Wrecked near Golfo Ladrillero in Chile |