Name: | RIVE DE GIER |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 29/08/1882 |
Completed: | 10/1882 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 476 |
Dimensions: | 1011grt, 700nrt, 238.8 x 33.0 x 16.0ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (30 & 57 x 36ins), 162nhp |
Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
10/1882 | D’Orbigny & Faustin fils, La Rochelle |
1899 | A D’Orbigny, Faustin & Cie, La Rochelle |
1909 | Cie des Chargeus Français (Plisson & Cie), Bayonne |
1912 | Cia Santurzana de Navegacion (Arrola, Lafita y Cia), Bilbao |
1912 | Renamed IPARRAGUIRRE |
1917 | Jose Maria de Urquijo, Bilbao |
09/07/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | 24/07/1912: Badly damed by fire & partly submerged at Torre del Oro Seville |
Subsequently raised and repaired | |
1917: Intended to be renamed BEGOÑA No 5 by new owner | |
09/07/1917: Captured, shelled & sunk by U-Boat U66, 50 miles N of Butt of Lewis | |
On a voyage from Pitea and Bergen to Santander with a cargo of pitwood |
Above photo as IPARRAGUIRRE, after the fire and sinking, is copyright of Manuel Rodríguez Aguilar