Xantha 1867

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Name:	XANTHA
Type:	Yacht
Launched:	16/08/1867
Completed:	08/1867
Builder:	Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard:	Jarrow
Yard Number:	217
Dimensions:	106grt, 72nrt, 116.0 x 18.8 x 9.0ft; (1875: 132grt, 85nrt, 134.0ft);
	(1901: 204grt, 104nrt, 148.4 x 19.3 x 9.9ft)
Engines:	I2cyl (24 & 24 x 18ins), 40hp; (1888: T4cyl (13, 21, 24 & 24 x 18ins) 49nhp);
	(1941: Oil engine, 3cyl)
Engines by:	Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow; (1888: E Scott, Newcastle);
	(1941: Benz & Cie, Mannheim)
Propulsion:	1 x Screw
Construction:	Iron
Reg Number:	56071
History:
27/08/1867	Lord Alfred Paget, Gloucester & Colchester; registered at Newcastle
1871	Registered at Colchester
1873	Thomas Chivers, Colchester
1875	Viscount Macduff, Colchester
1877	William Barneby, Herefordshire
1887	Harry S Edwards, Corbridge
1888	Registered at South Shields; renamed SOLYST
1892	Charles McIver, Liverpool; registered at Liverpool; renamed SEAMAID
1895	John L Phipps, Windsor
1901	DE Hadji Constanti et Frere, Syra; renamed KAPHIREUS
1916	Thrakiki Atmoploia, Syra
192x	Socratis Goumaris & Co, Salonica; renamed ESPEROS
1930	Georgios Mylonas, Salonica
1933	Dimiter Kenkov, Varna; renamed MACEDONIA or MAKEDONIYA
1941	Compañía Mediterránea de Vapores Ltda, Panama; renamed STRUMA
02/1942	Sank

Comments:	1875: Lengthened to 134.0ft
	1892: Also seen as SEA MAID (two words)
	1901: Lengthened to 148.4ft & converted into a cargo ship
	02/1942: Torpedoed & sunk in the Black Sea by Soviet submarine SHCH-213
	On a voyage from Istanbul to sea carrying Jewish refugees
	Only one survivor from a total of 791 x passengers & crew