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Name: ARMANDO R
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 02/06/1894
Completed: 07/1894
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 320
Dimensions: 3109grt, 2058nrt, 324.5 x 42.1 x 19.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (23.5, 39 & 64 x 42ins), 271nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
07/1894 Ditta C Raggio & Co, Genoa
1898 Soc Commerciale Italiana di Navigazione, Genoa; renamed PHOEBUS
1915 Soc Anon Ilva, Genoa
30/06/1017 Sank
Comments: 30/06/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat UC49 off Castletown, Ireland
On a voyage from Almeria to Barrow with a cargo of iron ore


Above image as ARMANDO R courtesy of Photoship