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Name: HELIOS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 29/05/1897
Completed: 06/1897
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 66
Dimensions: 1334grt, 832nrt, 236.8 x 35.1 x 18.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (18.5, 30 & 49 x 33ins), 138nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number:
History:
06/1897 Bruusgaard, Kiøsterud & Co, Drammen
1902 D/S Helios (Bruusgaard, Kiøsterud & Co), Drammen
1905 Nippon Beikoku KK, Kobe; renamed MIYO MARU
1911 Satsuki Shokai Goshi Kaisha, Kobe
1916 Katsuda Ginjiro, Kobe
1917 I Hirano, Kobe
1921 Ishikari Sikitan KK, Amagasaki
1922 Hokkaido Tanko Kisen KK, Amagasaki / Kobe
1930 Futaba Shokai Goshi Kaisha, Otaru
1934 Kwonan Kisen KK, Tokyo
1939 Konan Kisen KK, Tokyo
1940-1945 Sank
Comments: 1940-1945: Sank during wartime, lying off Tsuruga in 1946 with mine damage


Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 31/05/1897