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Name: TOUR
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 17/03/1866
Completed: 1866
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 135
Dimensions: 376grt, 267nrt, 166.2 x 25.4 x 14.9ft
Engines: 2cyl (36 & 36 x 26ins), 80hp; (1893: T3cyl (13, 22 & 35.5 x 27.5ins), 66nhp)
Engines by: J Jameson & Co, Newcastle; (1893: Plenty & Son, Newbury)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1866 Maximos Sakakini, Alexandria
by 1890 Khedivieh Mail Steamship Co, Suez; renamed MOUKBER
by 1892 Khedivial Steamship Administration, Suez
by 1894 Renamed MOUKBIR
by 1915 Archipelago American Steamship Co, Smyrna; renamed MAINE
by 1922 Registered in the United States
by 1924 Jean Sitges, Alicante; renamed MERCEDES
by 1929 Sitges freres, Algiers
1929 Broken up
Comments: 3Q/1929: Sold for breaking up to R Chaigne & J Lambert


Above image as TOUR is copyright of the National Maritime Museum