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Name: CYGNUS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 21/08/1906
Completed: 09/1906
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 136
Dimensions: 1186grt, 713nrt, 235.0 x 36.3 x 15.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (18.5, 30 & 49 x 33ins), 138nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1918: 142384)
History:
09/1906 A/S D/S Cygnus (C Blumer Hofgaard), Christiania, Norway
1915 E Grant Lea, Bergen; renamed HILDA LEA
1915 H Staubo, Christiania; renamed HAVDROT
by 1930 A/S China Coasting (EM Nielsen-Moe, manager), Oslo
1938 Wallem & Co (Haakon J Wallem, manager), Bergen; renamed HAI DAH
07/1947 Broken up
Comments: 04/1918 to 01/1919: Requisitioned by UK Shipping Controller
06/1940: Detained at Saigon by Vichy French authorities
Later released & served for the Allies
07/1947: Broken up at Bombay


Above photo as CYGNUS courtesy of George Robinson

Above photo as HAVDROT copyright of the Norsk Maritimt Museum, Anders Beer Wilse Collection

Above photo as HAVDROT copyright of the Norsk Maritimt Museum, Anders Beer Wilse Collection