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Name: GRETZIA also seen as GRETSIYA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 02/05/1881
Completed: 1881
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 425
Dimensions: 468grt, 354nrt, 175.0 x 27.7 x 11.3ft
Engines: 2 x C2cyl (14 & 25 x 18ins), 44nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1881 C Theophylatos, Baku
1906 Eastern Carrying, Insurance, Storing & Warrant Co, Astrakhan
07/1920 Soviet Navy; renamed NARIMAN NARIMANOV
No later history know
Comments: Boilers adapted for burning fuel oil
Fitted with tanks for carrying a cargo of 500 tons of oil
Designed to be split in two & joined again for passing through canal locks
07/1920: Converted by the Soviet Navy into a minesweeper
1923: Deleted from naval list


Newcastle Courant, Friday, 3rd June 1881