Name: | TRANSIT |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 19/03/1889 |
Completed: | 05/1889 |
Builder: | Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Bill Quay |
Yard Number: | 13 |
Dimensions: | 1334grt, 1027nrt, 250.0 x 35.0 x 15.6ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (18.5, 30 & 49 x 33ins), 138nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
05/1889 | I/S Transit (Wilh Wilhelmsen), Tønsberg |
1905 | T Tasaka, Habu; renamed TAKESHIMA MARU |
1909 | S Uyeda (H Koyanagi & Co), Habu |
1915 | S Koyanagi, Tarumi |
1919 | H Koyanagi & Co, Tarumi |
1920 | Busai Kisen KK, Kobe |
01/1922 | Missing |
Comments: | 17/01/1922: Sailed from Dairen for Moji with a cargo of beans & beancake |
Subsequently posted missing |
Above photo as TRANSIT is copyright of Wilh Wilhelmsen Archive