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Name: RESCUE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 23/08/1900
Completed: 09/1900
Builder: JP Rennoldson & Sons Ltd
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 205
Dimensions: 711grt, 398nrt, 189.2 x 30.2 x 11.1ft
Engines: T3cyl (15.5, 25 & 41 x 27ins), 90nhp
Engines by: JP Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 104229
History:
09/1900 Wetherall Steamship Co Ltd, Goole
1912 Carl F Gahlnback, Reval, Russia; renamed ORKAN
1920 Government of Russia
1922 Carl F Gahlnback, Reval, Russia
1923 Government of USSR (Baltic SS Co), Leningrad; renamed SOFIA PEROVSKAYA
No further history known
Comments: 1923: Also seen as SOFIA PEROVSKAJA
1960: Deleted from register


Above photo as RESCUE courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as RESCUE courtesy of Stan Threadgould