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Name: CALLISTO
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 23/10/1900
Completed: 12/1900
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 257
Dimensions: 3546grt, 2284nrt, 348.0 x 45.3 x 17.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 40 & 66 x 45ins), 308nhp
Engines by: Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
12/1900 NV Hudig & Veder’s Stoomvaart Mij (Hudig & Veder), Rotterdam
1915 NV Mij Zeevaart (Hudig & Veder), Rotterdam
1916 A/S Doris (HC Gørrissen), Christiania; renamed NORDFJELD
22/11/1922 Wrecked
Comments: 22/11/1922: Wrecked on Flowers Island, Newfoundland
On a voyage from Cardiff to Gaspé with a cargo of coal

Above photo as CALLISTO, taken at Porto Velho, Brazil in 1910 is courtesy of David Asprey