Ship Details

Maryland (I)

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Photo Credit: Vancouver Archives

 
 
Registry #1 143210 (UK Registry) Registry #2 (Greece Register) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1918 War Noble Name 6
Name 2 1920 Maryland (I) Name 7
Name 3 1923 Penhoet Name 8
Name 4 1935 Atlanticos (I) Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1918 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 410.5' x 54.1' x 27.5'
Builder J. Coughlan & Sons Ltd. Measurement (metric) 155.4m x 16.5m x 8.2m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 5818 Type 1 Freighter, (standard WW1)
Registered Tonnage 5446 Type 2
Engine 510nhp turbine steam engine, 11.5 kts Engine Manufacture North Eastern Marine Engineers Ltd., Sunderland UK
Repower Re-engined in 1923 with a 577nhp steam turbine engine by Chantiers de St. Nazaire, France. She was repowered in 1935 with 1 x 3 cylinder triple expansion engines Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign SVFV; OMXR;
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1918-1920 she was owned by The Shipping Controller, London UK. In 1920-1935 she was owned by Cie. Générale Transatlantique (CGT, Cie. Générale d´Armements Maritimes), Paris France. In 1935-1942 she was owned by Kulukundis Shipping Co. , Piraeus Greece. In 1944-1945 she was owned by Atlanticos Steamship Co. Ltd. (Kulukundis Shipping Co. S.A. mgrs), Piraeus Greece.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1942-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
On February 21, 1942 this vessel struck a mine in Barrow Deep (nr Sheerness), broke in two and sank.
 
References
Newell, Gordon (Ed.) (1966); Sawyer, L.A. & W.H. Mitchell (1968); Lloyd's Register Vol. 1 1944-1945; https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?74275; Lloyd's Register Vol. 1 1926-1927;
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