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Name: MANAR
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 11/06/1892
Completed: 07/1892
Builder: John Readhead & Sons
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 281
Dimensions: 2562grt, 1638nrt, 293.0 x 40.1 x 19.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (22, 36 & 60 x 39ins), 222nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 99462
History:
07/1892 J Nicholson, South Shields
1900 Manar SS Co Ltd (Moody & Lyngaas), South Shields
1903 Rederi A/B Vegga (John Lundwall), Limhamn; renamed VEGGA
1906 Kita Kichibei, Uraga; renamed KITA MARU
1913 Yamashita Kisen Gomei Kaisha, Nishinomiya
1913 Renamed KISAGATA MARU No 3
20/01/1917 Sank
Comments: 03/03/1905: Captured by Japanese auxiliary cruiser NIKKO MARU in the Korea Strait
On a voyage from Cardiff to Vladivostok with a cargo of coal
Condemned by a Japanese prize court.
20/01/1917: Captured & sunk by U-Boat UC21 west of Quiberon
On a voyage from Bordeaux to the UK with a cargo of pit props