Name: | RAMSES |
Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 27/09/1893 |
Completed: | 21/11/1893 |
Builder: | Wigham Richardson & Co |
Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 293 |
Dimensions: | 3634grt, 2340nrt, 5167dwt, 340.0 x 43.1 x 25.2ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (20.5, 29.5 & 63 x 42ins), 296nhp |
Engines by: | Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.5knots (trials) |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
21/11/1893 | Deutsche Dampfschifffahrts Ges ‘Kosmos’, Hamburg |
1911 | Continentale Rhederei AG, Hamburg; renamed REINFELD |
09/07/1914 | Berger Smith, Imossi & Co, Gibraltar |
11/1914 | Sank |
Comments: | Accommodation for 8 x 1st Class & 30 x 3rd Class passengers |
Contract Price £41100; Loss £559-11s-5d. | |
18/04/1914: Stranded on Almirante Rocks, refloated & taken to Gibraltar | |
Sold to the salvors, who then resold her to UK shipbreakers | |
Sold again to The Admiralty | |
11/1914: Sunk as a block ship at Scapa Flow |