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Name: SEAMEW
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 26/05/1888
Completed: 07/1888
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 593
Dimensions: 1543grt, 695nrt, 260.0 x 36.7 x 17.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (31, 50 & 76 x 45ins), 410nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 16.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 95446
History:
30/07/1888 General Steam Navigation Co, London
1914 JJ MacDowall, Piraeus; renamed DAPHNE
1918 Hellenic Co of Maritime Enterprises, Piraeus
1919 Renamed DAFNI
1924 Istiklal-I Bahri Sirketi, Istanbul; renamed ISMET PASA
1926 Ahmet Cakir, Istanbul
1928 Yelkencizadeler, Istanbul
1929 Broken up
Comments: Accommodation for 100 x 1st, 60 x 2nd & 33 x Steerage Class passengers
1929: Broken up at Istanbul by Ilhami Soker


Newcastle Evening Chronicle, Saturday, 26/05/1888