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Name: GRANTALA
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 28/05/1903
Completed: 1903
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 737
Dimensions: 3655grt, 1787nrt, 350.0 x 45.2 x 27.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (32, 51.5 & 84 x 54ins), 690nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 16.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 118370
History:
09/01/1904 Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd., Port Adelaide
1915 Red Funnel Shipping Co Ltd, London (Cie Générale Transatlantique)
1917 Renamed FIGUIG
1920 Cie Générale Transatlantique, Bordeaux
1934 Broken up
Comments: Accommodation for 110 x 1st & 180 x 2nd Class passengers
2Q/1934: Sold to M Bertorello at Genoa for breaking up


Above photo as GRANTALA is copyright of Allan Green

Above photo as GRANTALA is copyright of Allan Green

Above photo as FIGUIG is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as FIGUIG is courtesy of David Asprey

Above photo as FIGUIG is courtesy of Photoship