Category:Cillicothe (ship, 1892)

Sources: Miramar Ship Index, Historic American Engineering Record, page 113, The Sunday Oregonian, 1914-11-08, Wrecksite, Handbuch für die deutsche Handelsmarine auf das Jahr 1897, Handbuch für die deutsche Handelsmarine auf das Jahr 1908, 1912, 1914

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History

  • 1892-02-29 launched at Charles Connell & Company, Scotstoun, Glasgow (Yard No: 185)
  • 1892-03-xx delivered as Flotow, Rob. M. Sloman & Co., Hamburg (Unterscheidungssignal/code letters: RJQW)
  • 1898 renamed Alsterkamp, Aktien-Gesellschaft "Alster", Hamburg
  • 1912 renamed Arnoldus Vinnen, E. C. Schramm & Co., Bremen
  • 1912 new owner: F. A. Vinnen & Co., Bremer Stahlhof AG, Bremen
  • 1914-08-xx interned in Astoria, Oregon
  • 1914-11-07 towed to Clifton, Oregon, and laid up
  • 1917 seized by the United States, renamed Gamecock, US Shipping Board, Seattle
  • 1918 renamed Chillicothe, US Shipping Board, Seattle
  • 1922 new owner: John F. Blain, Seattle
  • 1923 new owner: Columbia River Packers Association, Astoria/Oregon
  • 1927 hulked, converted to barge
  • 1928 renamed Montravel, used as ore barge in New Caledonia
  • 1937 abandoned in Noumea
  • 1962 buried under nickel slag in Noumea

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