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Name: HYDRA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 19/07/1899
Completed: 08/1899
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 84
Dimensions: 1332grt, 829nrt, 237.1 x 35.1 x 18.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (18.5, 30 & 49 x 33ins), 138nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
08/1899 D/S A/S Hydra (Bruusgaard, Kiøsterud & Co), Drammen
1909 Bruusgaard, Kiøsteruds D/S A/S, Drammen
1911 R Matsumoto, Kobe; renamed HIRATO MARU
1920 Noguchi Kisen KK, Setoda
1922 Name shown as HIRADO MARU
09/03/1927 Wrecked
Comments: 09/03/1927: Wrecked off Shironuka, Kushiro
On a voyage from Biro to Kushiro with a cargo of timber


Shields Daily Gazette, Thursday, 20/07/1899