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Name: BARO FEJERVARY
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 09/05/1902
Completed: 31/06/1902
Builder: Wigham Richardson & Co
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 390
Dimensions: 3889grt, 2460nrt, 5980dwt, 365.3 x 48.2 x 17.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (22.5, 40 & 66 x 48ins), 361nhp
Engines by: Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
31/06/1902 ‘Adria’ Royal Hungarian Sea Nav Co Ltd, Fiume, Austro-Hungary
05/08/1914 Imperial Russian Navy; renamed BULGANAK
1918 ‘Adria’ Royal Hungarian Sea Nav Co Ltd, Fiume; renamed BARO FEJERVARY
1918 ‘Adria’ Royal Hungarian Sea Nav Co Ltd, Fiume, Italy
1920 Adria Soc di Nav Marittima, Fiume
1922 Renamed ARIOSTO
1937 “Tirrenia” Soc Anon di Nav, Fiume, Italy
15/02/1942 Sank
Comments: Contract Price Ł70926; Profit Ł4803-5s-6d
05/08/1914: Seized at Nikolayev & used by the Imperial Russian Navy as a transport
1918: Captured by the German forces occupying Novorossiysk
Subsequently returned to her original owners under the Italian flag
14/02/1942: Torpedoed & sunk by British submarine P38, 12 miles from Cape Africa
She was en route from Tripoli to Palermo carrying British prisoners of war
15/02/1942: Sank with the loss of 140 of the British prisoners


Above photo as BARO FEJERVARY copyright of Horváth József

Above photo as BARO FEJERVARY copyright of Horváth József

Above photo as ARIOSTO copyright of Horváth József

Shields Daily Gazette, Saturday, 10/05/1902