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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