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