Name: | DAKSA |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 30/01/1911 |
Completed: | 03/1911 |
Builder: | John Readhead & Sons Ltd |
Yard: | West Yard, South Shields |
Yard Number: | 417 |
Dimensions: | 4140grt, 2659nrt, 372.0 x 51.5 x 25.1ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (26, 43 & 71 x 48ins), 398nhp |
Engines by: | John Readhead & Sons Ltd, South Shields |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | |
History: | |
03/1911 | Navigazione a Vap Unione, Ragusa, Austria |
1915 | Italian Government (Ferrovie dello Stato), Naples |
1916 | Renamed SANTA ROSA |
1923 | Dubrovacka Parobrodska Plovidba, Dubrovnik; renamed DAKSA |
01/1930 | Sank |
Comments: | 23/05/1915: Seized at Genoa by the Government of Italy |
26/01/1930: Reported by wireless to be in distress 50 miles NW of Vigo | |
On a voyage from La Goulette to Rotterdam with a cargo of iron ore | |
Subsequently posted missing and presumed sunk |
Above painting as DAKSA is courtesy of the Dubrovnik Maritime Museum