Name: | SOPHIE |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 18/08/1888 |
Completed: | 11/1888 |
Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 527 |
Dimensions: | 1671grt, 1114nrt, 235.0 x 33.2 x 23.0ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (17.5, 28 & 46 x 30ins), 116nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
11/1888 | CF Wedekind, Geestemünde |
1891 | Act Ges Atlantic (P Wedekind), Bremen |
1905 | Managers became Soc Italo-Americana del Petrolio, Genoa |
01/1908 | Broken up |
Comments: | 31/05/1907: On fire and beached at the mouth of the Bosphorus |
On a voyage from Batoum to Tunis with a cargo of petrol | |
Subsequently refloated and sold for breaking up | |
01/1908: Broken up at Dunkerque |
Jarrow Express, Friday, 24/08/1888