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Name: YUG
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 13/06/1896
Completed: 1896
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 341
Dimensions: 801grt, 468nrt, 210.0 x 27.8 x 14.3ft
Engines: 2 x C2cyl (18 & 34 x 20ins), 200nhp, 1000ihp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws; 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1896 Eastern Carrying, Insurance, Storing & Warrant Co, Astrakhan
1915 Obschestvo ‘Kamvo’, Astrakhan
1918 Astrakhanskiy Oblvodtran, Astrakhan
1920 Kaspmortran, Astrakhan
1922 Caspian Shipping, Astrakhan
1923 A/O ‘Kaspar’, Astrakhan
No later history known
Comments: Accommodation for 22 x 1st and 470 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
Believed out of service in 1920’s, fate unknown