| 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