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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