Name: | TROPIC |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 01/02/1896 |
Completed: | 02/1896 |
Builder: | Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company |
Yard: | Willington Quay |
Yard Number: | 110 |
Dimensions: | 3630grt, 2340nrt, 350.0 x 47.0 x 17.2ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (25.5, 41 & 68 x 48ins), 357nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 105368 |
History: | |
02/1896 | Steamship Glenfyne Co Ltd (EC Thin), Liverpool |
1908 | FC Svorono & E di Pollone, Mariupol; renamed NADEJDA |
02/01/1918 | Sank |
Comments: | 02/01/1918: Sank after being captured and torpedoed by U-Boat U19 in |
St George’s Channel, 25 miles SW of Chicken Rock | |
On a voyage from Arkhangelsk to Cardiff in ballast |