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Name: KLYDE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 14/08/1882
Completed: 10/1882
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 68
Dimensions: 1573grt, 993nrt, 256 x 35 x 17.9ft
Engines: C2cyl (32, 62 x 36ins), 180nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 86985
History:
04/10/1882 Klyde Steamship Co Ltd (T Hunter & W Jacks), London
1886 Klyde Steamship Co Ltd (W Jacks), London
1897 Maclay & McIntyre, Glasgow
1901 Bank of Athens, Syra; renamed VRISIDA
1903 Renamed VRISSIIS
1905 N Valsamachis, Cephalonia; renamed URANIA
1910 MG Barbati, Mariupol
1921 Nicola & Barbati, Piraeus
10/1922 Turkish Navy; renamed SAMSUN
1924 Turkiye Seyrisefain Idaresi – Admin de Nav à Vapeur Turque, Istanbul
1927 Kirzade Sevki ve Surekasi, Istanbul; renamed GALATA
1938 Turk Silepcilik Ltd Sirketi, Istanbul
01/01/1939 Wrecked
Comments: 10/1922: Seized by the Turkish Government
01/01/1939: Driven ashore & wrecked at Karadeniz Eregli in a gale
She was loading coal for Istanbul. Subsequently broken up