Category:Aura II (ship, 1884)
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Ship
[edit]- Type: Passenger vessel, yacht, naval escort vessel
- Built by: Lindholmens Werkstad, Motala Mekaniska Werkstads, Gothenburg
- Yard No:
- Keel laid:
- Launched:
- Completed: 1884.05.25
- Length over all: 49.10 m
- Beam: 7.80 m
- GRT: 466
- DWT:
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History
[edit]- 1884 Named Halland; Flag: Sweden
- Call sign: TGWH
- Port: Halmstad
- Owner: Hallands Ångbats A/B; used in Göteborg - Lübeck service
- 1918.03.26 Sold to Trawl AB Sill (Alexander L. Qvirist) in Göteborg
- 1918.05.25 Sold to Ångfartygs A/B Bore; flag: Finland
- Port: Turku
- 1918.10.04 Collided with German steamer Cronshagen; beached, later repaired.
- 1918.10.27 Sold to Rederi A/B Halland (Harry Wilén)
- 1920.11.05 Sold to Ångfartygs A/B Bore, Turku.
- 1927 Rebuilt
- 1928.01.31 Renamed Bore II
- 1930.02.12 Sold to Hans von Rettig; rebuilt as luxury yacht and renamed Seagull
- Port: Turku
- 1936 Donated to Finland government as presidential yacht; renamed Aura
- 1939 Converted to escort ship with two guns and depth charges; renamed Aura II
- 1940.01.13 While escorting convoy, attacked Soviet submarine SHCH-324. Depth charge exploded prematurely and sank ship, 60.23 N 19.10 E. 15