Name: | LESTRIS |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 31/08/1905 |
Completed: | 10/1905 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 740 |
Dimensions: | 1384grt, 675nrt, 260.0 x 34.7 x 18.5ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (21, 33.5 & 54 x 39ins), 199nhp |
Engines by: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Low Walker |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 120102 |
History: | |
30/09/1905 | Cork Steamship Co Ltd, Cork |
1916 | FW Fischer, Rostock: renamed URSULA FISCHER |
1920 | Government of Belgium |
1920 | G Stocker & Co, Antwerp |
1926 | Armement L Hermans SA Bruges; renamed LESTRIS |
1936 | Cie Marchande Export-Import, Antwerp; renamed LE PHOQUE |
06/1939 | Broken up |
Comments: | Built for the Liverpool to Dutch & Belgian ports service |
Accommodation for a limited number of passengers | |
05/07/1916: Captured by German torpedo-boats between Maas LV & | |
Schouwenbank, taken to Zeebrugge and condemned by a prize court | |
1916: In service as an accommodation vessel at Zeebrugge | |
03/10/1918: Scuttled at Zeebrugge | |
1919: Re-floated | |
1926: Repairs completed | |
15/12/1938: Damaged in collision with BENNEKOM in Antwerp Docks | |
06/1939: Broken up at Ghent by Van Heyghen Freres |
Above photo taken after re-floating at Zeebrugge is copyright of Lloyds Register Foundation
Above photo taken after re-floating at Zeebrugge is courtesy of Jaap Bijl
Lloyd's List, Saturday, 02/09/1905