Category:Hamiltonian (ship, 1912)

Ship[edit]

• Type: Steam tanker
• Design by:
• Order date:
• Built by: Western Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co Ltd, Port Arthur, Ontario
• Yard No:
• Keel laid:
• Launch date: 21.05.1912
• Date of completion: 1912
• Length over all: 78,5 m
• LPP: m
• Beam: m
• Draught: m
• GRT: 2,347
• DWT:
• NET:
• Main engine: Steam engine
• Speed: kn

History[edit]

• 1912 Named: HAMILTONIAN for Canadian Interlake Line, Montreal PQ Flag: Canada
• 1913 Transferred to Canada Steamship Lines Ltd, Montreal PQ
• 1918 Sold to Lloyd Nacional SA, Rio de Janeiro Brazil Renamed: PIAVE Flag: Brazil
• 1923 Sold to Cia. Unizo Combustiveis, Sao Paulo
• 1927 Returned to Lloyd Nacional SA.
• 28.07.1942 22.30 hours hit by one torpedo from U-155 (Adolf Cornelius Piening) about 100 miles off Barbados and sunk by gunfire Position: 12.30N, 55.49W - Grid EE 8296 Master Renato Ferreira da Silva died and 34 survived.