Name: | TROPIC also seen as TROPIK |
Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 15/04/1897 |
Completed: | 05/1897 |
Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 347 |
Dimensions: | 985grt, 758nrt, 225.2 x 31.8 x 12.3ft |
Engines: | 2 x T3cyl (11.5, 18 & 30 x 20ins), 204nhp, 680ihp |
Engines by: | Ross & Duncan, Glasgow |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 11.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
05/1897 | Eastern Carrying, Insurance, Storing & Warrant Co, Astrakhan |
1915 | Obschestvo 'Kamvo', Astrakhan |
No later history known | |
Comments: | Accommodation for 28 x 1st and 250 x 3rd Class passengers |
Towed & rafted via Volga-Baltic Waterway (Mariinsk Canal system) to the Caspian Sea | |
1910: Deleted Lloyd's Register - Caspian Sea service only | |
Fate unknown after 1918 |
Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 19/04/1897