Name: | ZAPAD |
Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 20/06/1896 |
Completed: | 1896 |
Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 342 |
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 |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 9.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
1896 | Eastern Carrying, Insurance, Storing & Warrant Co, Astrakhan |
1915 | Obschestvo ‘Kamvo’, Astrakhan |
1920 | Kaspmortran, Astrakhan |
1922 | Caspian Shipping, Astrakhan |
1923 | A/O ‘Kaspar’, Astrakhan |
No later history known | |
Comments: | Accommodation for 11 x 1st and 146 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 |