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Name: MAHA VAJIRUNHIS
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 06/09/1881
Completed: 10/1881
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 423
Dimensions: 1300grt, 672nrt, 253.0 x 32.2 x 17.5ft
Engines: C2cyl (34 & 66 x 42ins), 235nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 85069
History:
25/10/1881 Hermann Katz, London
1883 Atjeh Steam Ship Co Ltd, London
1884 Nederlandsch Indische Stoomvaart Mij, Batavia
1893 Koninklijke Paketvaart Mij, Batavia
1906 R Lenzmann, Hamburg
1907 Sato Mine, Kobe; renamed DAI-YEKI MARU
1910 I Yokoyama, Kobe
1910 Steam Navigation of Count HH Keyserling, Vladivostok
1910 Renamed TROUVOR
02/09/1911 Wrecked
Comments: 02/09/1911: Wrecked near Olga Bay
On a voyage from Vladivostok to Olga Bay carrying general cargo


Above photo as MAHA VAJIRUNHIS is copyright of the K-J Hagenkötter Collection. Image is courtesy of David Asprey

Marine Engineer, October 1881