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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