Name: | ARPAD |
Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 28/05/1892 |
Completed: | 29/07/1892 |
Builder: | Wigham Richardson & Co |
Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 276 |
Dimensions: | 1173grt, 712nrt, 1446dwt, 230.5 x 33.1 x 12.4ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (22, 36 & 59 x 39ins), 236nhp |
Engines by: | Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.9knots (trials) |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
29/07/1892 | Adria Royal Hungarian Sea Nav Co Ltd, Fiume |
1919 | Company re-styled Adria Soc Anon di Nav Marittima, Fiume, Italy |
1922 | Renamed CANOVA |
1926 | Soc Anon Industrie Marittime, Ancona, Italy |
1932 | Cia Adriartica di Nav, Ancona |
1933 | Gioseppe Guina & Co, Trieste; renamed NERUCCI |
1933 | Scopinich & Monta, Genoa |
1934 | Captain Luigi Monta, Genoa |
1937 | Achille Lauro, Naples |
1945 | Broken up |
Comments: | Accommodation for 20 x 1st Class passengers |
Contract price £27118; Profit £831-11-4d | |
1943: Seized at Livorno by German forces and scuttled to block the harbour. | |
1945: Wreck broken up |
Above photo copyright of Nereo Castelli