Claudius (1899)

Later Names
Selenga (1904)
Selenga (1907)
Bessarabiya (1909)
Bessarabia (1918)
Bessarabiya (1919)
Greylight (1920)
Trude (1925)
Eurpoa (1928)


Builder:
William Gray & Co. Ltd.
West Hartlepool, England
Ordered:
N/A
Keel Laid:
N/A
Year Built:
1899
Launched:
March 15, 1899
Type:
Freighter
Completed:
April 1899
Fate:
Sunk Mar. 15, 1944 in collision with Liselotte Essberger.

Location: North Sea. near Bragen Island, Norway.

Casualties unknown.


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance (as built)
Length:
338' (registered) 350' (OA)
Engines:
Triple expansion (a)
Beam:
51' 1"
Boilers:
3 Single ended, 170 lb. working pressure
Draft:
24' 4" (depth)
Shafts:
1
Gross Tons:
3,520
HP:
312 (nhp)
DWT:
6,200
Speed:
9 knots
   
Notes
(a):
By Central Marine Engineering Works, West Hartlepool, England.


Owner
As built:
C. Andersen
Hamburg, Germany
1904:
Russian Navy (as Selenga)
1907:
Far Eastern Steamship & Navigation Company Ltd. (as Selenga)
Vladivostok, Russia
1909:
P. Regier (as Bessarabiya)
Odessa, Russia
1918:
British Government (as Bessarabia)
London, England
1919:
P. Regier (as Bessarabiya)
Odessa, Russia
1920:
Starlight Steamship Company Ltd. (as Greylight)
London, England
1925:
Reederei Stange & Dreyer GmbH (as Trude)
Stettin, Germany
1928:
Atlas Reederei A.G. (as Europa)
Emden, Germany


Ship's History (information not available)



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