Name: | PRINCE MAHOMED TAWFIK also seen as PRINCE MOHAMED TEWFIK |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 22/07/1867 |
Completed: | 09/1867 |
Builder: | C Mitchell & Co |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 156 |
Dimensions: | 277grt, 220nrt, 140.6 x 21.8 x 11.5ft; |
(1884: 286grt, 195nrt, 141.1 x 22.3 x 11.3ft); (1920: 310grt, 167nrt) | |
Engines: | 2cyl (25.5 & 25.5 x 24ins), 45nhp |
Engines by: | J Jamieson & Co, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | n/a; (1884:87170) |
History: | |
09/1867 | Egyptian Sulphur Company, Suez |
1884 | Telegraph Construction & Mainenance Co, London; renamed MEDINA |
1888 | P Jorgensen, Kosor, Denmark |
1889 | D/S Kosor, Kosor |
1890 | H Rasmussen, Kosor |
1903 | T Hanssen, Haugesund, Norway; renamed BIRGIT |
1905 | SS Birgit's Rederi (S Rasmussen), Haugesund |
1915 | A/S May’s Rederi (M Clausen), Haugesund |
12/1916 | Government of Germany |
1918 | FW Fischer, Rostock; renamed GUSTAV FISCHER |
1920 | Eugen Schnaas, Stettin |
1922 | Renamed NIXE |
1923 | Adolf Müller, Stettin |
1925 | Carl Wilhelm Ohlig, Hamburg |
1925 | Broken up |
Comments: | Launch date also seen as 20/07/1867 |
15/12/1916: Captured near Hoofden by U-Boat UB17 & taken as a prize | |
1925: Thought to have been broken up in Germany | |
1926: Deleted from Lloyd's Register |
Above image as BIRGIT is copyright of Sjohistorie