Name: | HELIOS launched as LADY NOBLE |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 16/06/1898 |
Completed: | 08/1898 |
Builder: | Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Bill Quay |
Yard Number: | 74 |
Dimensions: | 694grt, 473nrt, 185.0 x 29.2 x 11.8ft; (1901: 797grt, 221.5ft) |
Engines: | T3cyl (15, 25 & 40 x 27ins), 93nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 9.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
08/1898 | Dampfschiffahrts Ges “Neptun”, Bremen |
1925 | Red för Angaren ‘Pluto’ (O Bengtsson), Helsingborg; renamed PLUTO |
1927 | Manager GF Persson, Landskrona |
1929 | Rederi A/B Henckel (H Trolle Henckel), Gothenburg |
1950 | Manager O Schrader |
1950 | Maskinaffären Generator A/B (Sten A Olsson), Gothenburg; renamed STEFAN |
08/1952 | Broken up |
Comments: | 16/06/1898: Launched as LADY NOBLE for LS Carr & Co, Newcastle |
1901: Lengthened to 221.5ft, then 797grt | |
28/10/1928: Stranded 4 miles SSE of Örskär Light House on a voyage from | |
Batskärsnäs to St Malo with timber, refloated, condemned and sold | |
15/08/1952: Arrived at Bo’ness for breaking up | |
08/1952: Broken up by P & W MacLellan |
Above photo as PLUTO is copyright of Tomas Johannesson
Above photo as STEFAN is copyright of Robert Bomans Collection
Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 18/06/1898