Name: | BRA-KAR |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 14/02/1911 |
Completed: | 03/1911 |
Builder: | Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company |
Yard: | Willington Quay |
Yard Number: | 177 |
Dimensions: | 4777grt, 2992nrt, 385.0 x 51.0 x 27.6ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (26, 42 & 71 x 48ins), 349nhp |
Engines by: | J Dickinson & Sons, Sunderland |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 9.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
03/1911 | A/S Bonheur (Fred Olsen), Christiania |
1916 | Henrik Ostervold, Christiania; renamed HAVO |
1920 | Henrik Ostervold’s Rederi A/S, Bergen |
1935 | Far Eastern SS Co Ltd A/S (Johan Gran), Bergen; renamed MABUHAY II |
1938 | Matsumoto Masaichi, Kobe; renamed RYUSEI MARU |
25/02/1944 | Sank |
Comments: | 25/02/1944: Sank after being torpedoed by United States submarine |
USS RASHER off the north coast of Bali at 07.55S – 115.15E |
Above photo as RYUSEI MARU is courtesy of Photoship
Newcastle Journal, Wednesday, 15/02/1911