Name: | VAN HOGENDORP |
Type: | Passenger Refrigerated Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 12/03/1914 |
Completed: | 05/1914 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 953 |
Dimensions: | 3298grt, 2005nrt, 331.2 x 45.2 x 25.6ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (23,38 & 63 x 39ins), 435nhp |
Engines by: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 13.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
05/1914 | Wambersie & Zoon, Rotterdam |
1917 | Sarnia Steamship Corp, New York; renamed TANAMO |
1919 | Atlantic Fruit Co, New York |
1923 | Cuyamel Fruit Co, New York |
1924 | Cuyamel Fruit Co, Puerto Cortes; renamed LEMPIRA |
1929 | Mayan Steamship Corp, Puerto Cortes |
1934 | United Fruit Steamship Corp, New York; renamed TANAMO |
1940 | Mayan Steamship Corp, Tela, Honduras |
1943 | Empresa Hondurena de Vapores, Tela, Honduras |
1946 | Maritime Transport & Trading Co SA, Tela, Honduras; renamed SAMARIA |
1949 | CA Transportes Panamericanos, Panama City |
10/1951 | Broken up |
Comments: | Accommodation for 30 x 1st Class passengers |
08/1918 to 04/1919: Requisitioned by the US Navy | |
02/02/1951: Capsized at Genoa and broken up there 10/1951 |
Above photo as TANAMO is courtesy of the US Navy
Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 14/03/1914