Name: | DAN |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 30/04/1907 |
Completed: | 06/1907 |
Builder: | John Readhead & Sons |
Yard: | West Yard, South Shields |
Yard Number: | 401 |
Dimensions: | 4283grt, 2323nrt, 350.4 x 49.1 x 24.8ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (24.5, 41 & 66 x 45ins), 326nhp |
Engines by: | John Readhead & Sons, South Shields |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a; (1940: 167615) |
History: | |
06/1907 | Navigazione Libera Giov Racich & Co, Ragusa |
1915 | Italian Government (Ferrovie dello Stato), Genoa |
1916 | Renamed GEROLAMO ULLOA |
1924 | Giov Racich, Dubrovnik: renamed DAN |
1925 | Atlantska Plovidba Ivo Racic AD, Dubrovnik; renamed IVO RACIC |
1928 | Jugoslavenski Lloyd dd, Dubrovnik |
1940 | Crest Shipping Co Ltd, London; renamed YEWCREST |
23/08/1940 | Sank |
Comments: | 23/05/1915: Seized by Italy at Genoa |
23/08/1940: Shelled & sunk by U-Boat U37, 600 miles W of Ireland at 55.10N – 25.02W | |
On a voyage from Cardiff to Wabana in ballast |
Above photo as IVO RACIC is courtesy of Library of Contemporary History at Stuttgart
Shields Daily News, Wednesday, 01/05/1907