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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