Name: | ASHDOWN |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 14/12/1891 |
Completed: | 02/1892 |
Builder: | CS Swan & Hunter |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 174 |
Dimensions: | 2899grt, 1854nrt, 312 x 41 x 20.5ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (23, 37.5 & 61.5 x 39ins), 235nhp |
Engines by: | Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 8.5knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 99040 |
History: | |
02/1892 | Ashdown Steamship Co Ltd (WP Price & Co), London |
1896 | English & American Shipping Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co), London; |
1896 | Renamed VERA |
1911 | Campas & Co, Piraeus; renamed IOANNIS TH SIFNEO |
1912 | Soc de Rostoff sur Don pour l'Expedition en Commission le Promethee, |
(J Sifneo, P Inglesselis & Co), Piraeus | |
1913 | Emm Chr Nicolaidis, Syra; renamed OLKAS |
1915 | Sefton Steamship Co Ltd (HE Moss & Co), Liverpool; renamed MOUNT SNOWDON |
1921 | Riccardo Brughera, Genoa; renamed ZARA |
23/03/1923 | Broken up |
Comments: | 23/03/1923: Broken up at Savona |
Above photo as MOUNT SNOWDON courtesy of Richard Cox