Name: | DACIA |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 04/11/1899 |
Completed: | 03/1900 |
Builder: | CS Swan & Hunter Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 248 |
Dimensions: | 3470grt, 2226nrt, 335.4 x 48.1 x 24.5ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (24, 39 & 66 x 45ins), 311nhp |
Engines by: | T Richardson & Sons, Hartlepool |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
03/1900 | AC de Freitas & Co, Hamburg |
1900 | Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hamburg |
1915 | EN Breitung, Marquette, Michigan (A Jensen, Copenhagen) |
1915 | Renamed MONELIA |
1915 | French Government; renamed YSER |
06/11/1915 | Sank |
Comments: | 08/1914: Attempted to fit out as a German naval auxiliary while at Port Arthur, TX |
Taken as a prize by the USA Government. Subsequently sold | |
28/02/1915: Captured by French auxiliary cruiser EUROPE in the English Channel | |
06/11/1915: Captured, shelled & sunk by U-Boat U38, 20 miles NNW of Cap de Fer, Algeria | |
On a voyage from Cardiff to Bizerta carrying general cargo |
Above photo as DACIA is courtesy of David Asprey