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Name: ITAPARICA
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 21/10/1889
Completed: 12/1889
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 556
Dimensions: 2543grt, 1589nrt, 324.4 x 40.0 x 22.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (25, 41 & 67 x 42ins), 291nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
12/1889 Hamburg-Sudamerikanische Dampfs Ges, Hamburg
1901 Renamed CHUBUT; registered at Buenos Aires
1904 Renamed ITAPARICA; registered at Hamburg
1905 Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hamburg; renamed VIRGINIA
10/1916 Jason Navigation Corp (EF Geer), New York; renamed JASON
1921 Urquijo y Aldecoa, Bilbao; renamed URALKER
1923 Broken up
Comments: Accommodation for 40 x 1st Class & 246 x Steerage Class passengers
08/1914: Laid up at Cartagena, Colombia
09/1923: Broken up at Wilhelmshaven


Above photo as ITAPARICA courtesy of Richard Cox