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Name: DIOMED also seen as DIOMID
Type: Tug
Launched: 1898
Completed: 1898
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 367
Dimensions: 100grt, 32nrt, 91.5 x 19.5 x 9.0ft
Engines: C2cyl (16.5 & 33 x 22ins), 410ihp
Engines by:
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1898 Russian Volunteer Fleet Association, Vladivostok
1918 Unknown owners
12/1922 Far-Eastern Shipping Company - Sovtorgflot, USSR
02/09/1932 Soviet Navy - Pacific Fleet
01/01/1933 Renamed MINESWEEPER NO 13
01/05/1934 Renamed MINESWEEPER NO 18
09/07/1934 Far-Eastern Shipping Company - Sovtorgflot, USSR; Renamed DIOMID
1941 Soviet Navy - Pacific Fleet; renamed MINESWEEPER KT-87
11/1945 Far-Eastern Shipping Company - Sovtorgflot, USSR; Renamed DIOMID
No later history known
Comments: Built & then dismantled for shipping to Vladivostok
Russian Marine Regiter of Vessels lists as completed in 1900
1918 - 1922: At Vladivostok during the Russian civil war, many owners
1941 - 1945: Requisitioned by the Soviet Navy