Name: | CORVIN |
Type: | Passenger Cargo ship |
Launched: | 05/08/1913 |
Completed: | 09/1913 |
Builder: | William Dobson & Co |
Yard: | Walker |
Yard Number: | 182 |
Dimensions: | 1444grt, 911nrt, 240.0 x 36.1 x 14.4ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (19, 31 & 52 x 36ins), 212nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
09/1913 | Hungarian Levant Steamship Co Ltd, Fiume |
1919 | Levant Steamship Co Ltd, Fiume |
1919 | Government of France, Marseille |
1921 | Levante Soc di Nav Marittima, Fiume |
1933 | Hellenic Coast Lines Co Ltd, Piraeus; renamed THRAKI |
22/04/1941 | Sank |
Comments: | Accommodation for about 30 x 1st Class passengers plus 2nd & 3rd classes |
For service between Constantinople and Braila plus other Danube ports | |
22/04/1941: Sunk in an air attack near Sombraina in the Gulf of Corinth |
Above photo is courtesy of Magyar Muszaki és Közlekedési Múzeum
Newcastle Journal, Wednesday, 06/08/1913