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S/S ASTRAEA |
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Passenger steamer, one deck & spar deck |
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Passengers |
I: 22 |
II: 34 |
III: 186 |
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Ice class |
1 |
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Tonnages |
1,186 GRT |
635 NRT |
970 tdw |
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Length over all |
70.64 m - 231' 10" |
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Breadth |
9.80 m - 31' 10" |
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Draught |
5.79 m - 19' 0" |
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Engine |
Triple steam engine 3 cy. by the shipbuilders. |
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Horse powers |
1,500 IHP |
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Speed |
12 knots |
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12.10.1891 |
Completed by Wigham Richardson & Co., Newcastle, as S/S Astraea for Finska Ångfartygs Aktiebolaget, Helsinki. Put into Hanko - Hull service until 1899 and thereafter sailed mainly on Turku - Copenhagen - Hull line. |
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20.2.1930 |
Sold to H. A. Elfving, Hanko, and delivered on April 1 without change of name. Converted to a mother ship for fishing vessels and used in Islandic waters. Registered as fishing vessel Suomi-1. |
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18.6.1934 |
Transferred to Elfvingin Kalastuslaivue Oy - Elfving's Fiskeflotta Ab, Hanko. |
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15.7.1936 |
Sold to Thomas Young, Sunderland, for demolition and delivered in October. |
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Source: The Ships of Our First Century : The Effoa Fleet 1883-1983. Ed. by Matti Pietikäinen & Bengt Sjöström. Keuruu 1983, 231 p. ISBN 951-99438-5-4. |
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