Name: | TEMPO |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 14/07/1881 |
Completed: | 08/1881 |
Builder: | T & W Smith |
Yard: | North Shields |
Yard Number: | 74 |
Dimensions: | 1082grt, 672nrt, 231.0 x 35.1 x 13.9ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (30 & 58 x 36ins), 144nhp |
Engines by: | Hawks, Crawshay & Son, Gateshead |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 83910 |
History: | |
25/08/1881 | RB Fenwick & J Reay, Newcastle |
08/06/1899 | Pelton Steamship Co Ltd (RS Gardiner & J Reay), Newcastle |
24/02/1911 | C Anastasiades, Istanbul; renamed KARASOUL |
1912 | Registered at Piraeus; renamed CARASSOUL |
1913 | Bank of Athens (Karasoul & Anastassiades), Piraeus |
1914 | Karasoul & Anastassiades, Piraeus; renamed SIRACUSA |
1915 | Aristotelis Galiatzatos; renamed TEANA |
1915 | Imperial Russian Navy |
22/11/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | Also referred to Yard Number 75 in some sources |
Requisitioned by the Russian Navy as Black Sea transport N98 | |
22/11/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat UB42 off Novy Afon, | |
in the Black Sea at position 43.05N – 40.49E |
Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 15/07/1881