Launched at the Oskarshamns Varv, Oskarshamn, for the Bockholmssundsbolaget for their Lake Mälaren passenger trade.
A steam ship built in 1886 by R. Duncan & Co., Port Glasgow, as yard No. 233.
Equipped with a 2 triple expansion engines by Rankin &
Blackmore of 1670 ihp and twin screws.
- 1886
- R Duncan & Co., Port Glasgow, for P. Keith & J.H. Mudei, Greenock.
- 1891
- Sold to J.H. Mudie, Greenock.
- 1899
- Sold to Clive Steam Tug Co., Ltd., London,
- 1903
- Sold to V.S.E. Grech, London, (stationed at Gelibolu),
- 1910
- Sold to R.A. Grech, London (still stationed at Gelibolu),
- 1912
- Sold to the Ottoman navy and was renamed Intibah, commissioneed a salvage tug,
- 1914
- Converted to minelayer.
- 1917 July 14
- Hit a wreck en route from Zonguldak to Istanbul, while in use as a fast transport from Zonguldak to Istanbul, Beached, later salved and towed
to Istanbul for repairs.
- 1918 January 23
- Attacked by British submarine E14 in the Dardanelles, but the torpedo missed. She and other vessels chased the submarine which was sunk by
coastal batteries.
- 1925
- Renamed Uyanik, now Turkish Navy,
- 1933
- renamed Intibah again, converted back to a tug
- 1958
- Sold privately,
- 1959-64
- Converted to cargo motorship,
- 1967
- Sold to Mustafa Okan K S, Istanbul, and was renamed Ararat.
sold 1993
- Sold to Dogruyol Karadeniz Denizcilik Nakliyat L.S., Istanbul.
- 1997
- Sold to unknown owners.
An illustration shows her as a salvage tug with two closely spaced funnels. I
will need to see if there is any reference in the Cylde-built ship archives to
confirm she was built as such.
Somebody was asking a week or two ago about the Turkish coaster Ararat, which
stranded off the coast of Calabria last month with Kurdish refugees/illegal
immigrants on board.
I wrote to my friend Jochen Krusmann, an expert on Tuirkish shipping, and he
has come up with her history, which follows, with further details from "The
Ottoman Steam Navy": Langensiepen and Guleryuz.
Updated 1998-01-30 by
Lars Bruzelius
Sjöhistoriska Samfundet | The Maritime History Virtual Archives.
Copyright © 1998 Lars Bruzelius.