Name: | PARIS |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 23/12/1897 |
Completed: | 19/02/1898 |
Builder: | Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Bill Quay |
Yard Number: | 68 |
Dimensions: | 1052grt, 574nrt, 230.0 x 32.3 x 14.2ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (21, 34 & 56 x 36ins), 186nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 104957 |
History: | |
02/1898 | London & Paris Steamship Co Ltd (FC Strick & Co Ltd), Swansea |
1898 | Red Cross Iquitos Steamship Co Ltd (R Singlehurst & Co), Liverpool |
1898 | Renamed UCAYALI |
1901 | Managers became Booth Steam Ship Co Ltd |
1905 | Iquitos Steamship Co Ltd (Booth Steam Ship Co Ltd), Liverpool |
1913 | Booth Steam Ship Co Ltd, Liverpool |
1914 | L Walford & Co (London) Ltd, London |
1915 | Renamed STANISLAS |
1916 | Geo Gibson & Co Ltd, Leith |
1933 | Giuseppe Riccardi, Naples; renamed PESCARA |
1937 | Soc Anon Navigazione e Trasporti ‘Sanet’, Rome / Venice |
04/1960 | Broken up |
Comments: | 21/09/1943: Scuttled by German forces at Torre del Greco |
Refloated after 1945 and repaired | |
04/1960: Broken up in Italy |
Above photo as PARIS courtesy of Clive Ketley
Public Ledger & Daily Advertiser, Friday, 31/12/1897