Name: | HESTIA |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 16/05/1907 |
Completed: | 06/1907 |
Builder: | Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Bill Quay |
Yard Number: | 143 |
Dimensions: | 1245grt, 788nrt, 225.3 x 34.2 x 14.3ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (17, 28 & 46 x 33ins), 141nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 9.5knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | |
History: | |
06/1907 | Dampf AG Neptun, Bremen |
1920 | Deutsch-Australische Dampf, Hamburg; renamed HAMM |
1925 | Ernst Russ, Hamburg; renamed FOHR |
1928 | Schiffahrt-u Assekuranz GmbH, Hamburg |
1936 | Pittaluga & Bertorello, Genoa; renamed APRILIA |
1937 | Achille Lauro, Naples |
1943 | Mittlemeer Reederei GmbH, Hamburg; renamed AGATHE |
03/07/1944 | Sank |
Comments: | 09/09/1943: Seized by German forces at Thessaloniki |
03/07/1944: Sunk by British air attack west of Rhodes |
Above photo as HESTIA is courtesy of George Robinson
Above photo as HESTIA is copyright of Bernhard Dahlgren