Name: | BUCEPHALUS |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 14/02/1884 |
Completed: | 03/1884 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 537 |
Dimensions: | 1818grt, 1192nrt, 276.0 x 36.2 x 21.9ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (25 & 54 x 42ins), 195nhp; (1892: Q4cyl (15, 15, 32.5 & 54 x 42), 195nhp |
Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd; (1892: Blackwood & Gordon, Port Glasgow) |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 88919 |
History: | |
03/07/1884 | A Currie & Co, Melbourne |
1901 | Handel Mij Kian Gwan, Samarang; renamed SIMONGAN |
1910 | Samarang Stoomvaart Mij, Samarang |
1911 | Chew Joon Hiang, Singapore; renamed BUCEPHALUS |
1913 | Heap Eng Moh SS Co Ltd, Singapore |
1914 | T Yoshida, Uraga; renamed ASAKA MARU |
1920 | Kusakabe Kyutaro, Uraga |
1922 | Kusakabe Kisen KK, Amagasaki |
1924 | Kusakabe Kijutaro, Amagasaki |
1930 | Broken up |
Comments: | Designed to carry horses between Melbourne and Calcutta |
1892: Engine quadrupled | |
2Q/1930: Broken up in Japan |