Name: | RELIANCE |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 06/12/1904 |
Completed: | 03/1905 |
Builder: | Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 86 |
Dimensions: | 3638grt, 2362nrt, 343.3 x 50.1 x 23.5ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (25, 42 & 68 x 45ins), 335nhp |
Engines by: | Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 8.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 118651 |
History: | |
20/03/1905 | MacIntyre Brothers & Co, Newcastle |
1913 | Manoravon Steamship Co Ltd (Griffiths, Lewis & Co), Cardiff |
1918 | Griffiths Lewis Steam Navigation Co Ltd (JC Gould & Co), Cardiff; renamed GRELBEN |
1919 | Marine Transport Co Ltd (WH Kelynack), Cardiff |
1921 | Renamed DEEMSTER |
1923 | Joseph Constantine Steamship Line Ltd, Middlesbrough |
1923 | Renamed BRIARWOOD |
1928 | P Regier (K Behrsing), Riga; renamed SELONIA |
1928 | Parobrodarsko Akc Drustvo 'Progres', Split; renamed OREBIC |
1935 | Minster Steamship Co Ltd, London & Malta; renamed ORMINSTER |
1936 | Soc Anon di Nav 'Mare Nostrum' (A Ravano fu Pietro), Genoa |
1936 | Renamed COMITAS |
21/12/1939 | Mined |
Comments: | 21/12/1939: Mined off Flushing & beached off Rammekens |
On a voyage from Djibouti to Antwerp in ballast | |
22/12/1939: Grounded near Vlissingen during salvage | |
1944: Part broken up |
Above photo as COMITAS courtesy of the Mayor of Flushing
Above photo as COMITAS courtesy of the Mayor of Flushing