Name: | MANAR |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 11/06/1892 |
Completed: | 07/1892 |
Builder: | John Readhead & Sons |
Yard: | West Yard, South Shields |
Yard Number: | 281 |
Dimensions: | 2562grt, 1638nrt, 293.0 x 40.1 x 19.5ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (22, 36 & 60 x 39ins), 222nhp |
Engines by: | John Readhead & Co, South Shields |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 99462 |
History: | |
07/1892 | J Nicholson, South Shields |
1900 | Manar SS Co Ltd (Moody & Lyngaas), South Shields |
1903 | Rederi A/B Vegga (John Lundwall), Limhamn; renamed VEGGA |
1906 | Kita Kichibei, Uraga; renamed KITA MARU |
1913 | Yamashita Kisen Gomei Kaisha, Nishinomiya |
1913 | Renamed KISAGATA MARU No 3 |
20/01/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | 03/03/1905: Captured by Japanese auxiliary cruiser NIKKO MARU in the Korea Strait |
On a voyage from Cardiff to Vladivostok with a cargo of coal | |
Condemned by a Japanese prize court. | |
20/01/1917: Captured & sunk by U-Boat UC21 west of Quiberon | |
On a voyage from Bordeaux to the UK with a cargo of pit props |