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Name: TROJAN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 28/08/1897
Completed: 11/1897
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 115
Dimensions: 3668grt, 2363nrt, 350.0 x 47.0 x 17.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (25.5, 41 & 68 x 48ins), 353nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 106888
History:
11/1897 EC Thin, Liverpool
1902 Steamship Trojan Co Ltd (EC Thin), Liverpool
1908 P Regier, Mariupol; renamed VELIKOROSSIA
1912 Russian Commercial SS Co (P Regier), Mariupol
03/1915 Imperial Russian Navy
05/1918 Government of Germany
1920 Anglo Commercial Shipping Co Ltd (HA Brightman & Co), London
1920 Renamed ANCHORTON
1921 Managers became Regier Shipping Co Ltd
1925 Parobrodarsko Akc Drustvo ‘Progress’, Split; renamed NAPREDAK
1928 Koutsoucos Brothers, Andros; renamed NEFELI
10/1931 Broken up
Comments: 03/1915: Requisitioned by the Imperial Russian Navy as Black Sea Transport N13
05/1918: Under German control in the Black Sea to 11/1918
13/10/1931: Arrived at Inverkeithing for breaking up by TW Ward


Above photo as TROJAN courtesy of Clive Ketley



Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 30/08/1897