Name: | R F MATTHEWS |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 22/04/1879 |
Completed: | 05/1879 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 385 |
Dimensions: | 1962grt, 1256nrt, 270.0 x 35.3 x 24.3ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (22 & 58.5 x 42ins), 203nhp |
Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 81543 |
History: | |
26/05/1879 | Hunting & Pattison, London |
1891 | Hunting & Son, London |
1899 | Cav Carlo Allodi, Livorno; renamed MELORIA |
29/09/1911 | Government of Turkey |
1911 | Ottoman Navy; renamed DERNE |
No later history known | |
Comments: | 29/09/1911: Seized by Turkey at Istanbul at the outbreak of war with Italy |
1911: Used as a Naval collier | |
1929: Deleted from Lloyd’s Register as DERNA but believed to have been | |
laid up from 1913 and broken up in about 1928 |