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Name: TIBERIUS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 17/06/1905
Completed: 08/1905
Builder: Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number: 125
Dimensions: 4149grt, 3374nrt, 360.0 x 48.0 x 28.1ft
Engines: T3cyl (26, 42 & 72 x 48ins), 400nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1915: 139014)
History:
08/1905 C Andersen, Hamburg
1915 Australian Government; renamed TOROMEO
1918 Commonwealth Government Line of Steamers, London
1923 Australian Commonwealth Line of Steamers, London
1924 Machido Aijiro; renamed TOROMEO MARU
1924 Nanyo Kogyo Koshi, Dairen; renamed KINSEN MARU
1930 Ishihara Sangyo Kaiun Goshi Kaisha, Dairen
14/03/1933 Sank
Comments: 1914: Seized at Port Jackson, Australia & requisitioned by the Government
14/03/1933: Foundered in the Coral Sea at position 20.53S - 156.54E
On a voyage from Melbourne to Yokohama with a cargo of wheat & zinc ore


Above photo as TOROMEO is copyright of Allan C Green

Above photo as TOROMEO is copyright of Allan C Green

Shields Daily News, Monday, 19/06/1905