Name: | CAYO SOTO |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 17/02/1900 |
Completed: | 04/1900 |
Builder: | John Readhead & Sons |
Yard: | West Yard, South Shields |
Yard Number: | 345 |
Dimensions: | 3421grt, 2143nrt, 346.3 x 45.1 x 25.3ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (25, 42 & 68 x 45ins), 320nhp |
Engines by: | John Readhead & Sons, South Shields |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 112691 |
History: | |
04/1900 | Cuban Steamship Co Ltd (E Bigland & Co), London |
1901 | Russische Baltische Dampfs Ges (Helmsing & Grimm), Riga; renamed XENIA |
1906 | Imperial Russian Navy |
1918 | English & Russian Repair & Machinery Works Association, Murmansk |
06/1921 | Northern State SS Co, Arkhangelsk; renamed OB |
21/09/1921 | Sank |
Comments: | 1906: Used as a repair ship by the Imperial Russian Navy |
21/09/1921: Sank after being crushed in ice in the Kara Sea at 72.38N – 66E | |
On a voyage from the Yenisei River to Arkhangelsk with a cargo of grain |
Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 19/02/1900