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Name: KARPAT
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 29/08/1912
Completed: 10/1912
Builder: William Dobson & Co
Yard: Walker
Yard Number: 180
Dimensions: 5056grt, 2661nrt, 378.2 x 53.3 x 24.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 39 & 66 x 45ins), 343nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
10/1912 Hungarian Levant Steamship Co Ltd, Fiume
08/1914 Admiralty requisition (Everett & Newbigin), London; renamed POLMONT
1916 Raeburn & Verel Ltd, Glasgow (as Crown nominees)
1916 Renamed POLISH MONARCH
1922 Nav Libera G Racich & Ci, Dubrovnik; renamed IZABRAN
1925 Atlantska Plovidba Ivo Racic ad, Dubrovnik
1928 Jugoslavenski Lloyd dd, Dubrovnik
1936 Brodarsko Akc Drustvo “Oceania”, Susak; renamed DUNAV
1946 Jugoslavenska Linijska Plovidba, Rijeka; renamed LJUBLJANA
1956 Splosna Plovda, Koper
19/09/1963 Broken up
Comments: 08/1914: Seized by the UK Government at South Shields
As an RFA she operated as an Admiralty water carrier and collier
19/09/1963: Arrived at Sveti Kajo, Split, for breaking up by Brodospas


Above photo as KARPAT is courtesy of Magyar Muszaki és Közlekedési Múzeum

Above photo as LJUBLJANA is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as LJUBLJANA is copyright of Marijan Zuvic