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Name: ALEXANDROS
Launched: 23/04/1894
Completed: 22/05/1894
Builder: JT Eltringham & Co, South Shields
Yard Number: 175
Dimensions: 75grt, 26nrt, 78.4 x 16.1 x 8.8ft
Engines: SL1cyl (23 x 46ins), 30nhp
Engines by: Baird & Barnsley, North Shields
Propulsion: Paddle, 8.5knots (trials)
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1894 Vagliano Bros, Mariupol, Russia
1895 D Charadjsoff, Mariupol
1895 AD Khorodjaev & Co, Mariupol; renamed ALEXANDER
1920 Government of Soviet Russia, Taganrog; renamed URITSKY
20/08/1942 Sank
Comments: 1894: For use in the Sea of Azov
1918 - 1919: Ownership unknown due to Russian civil war
20/08/1942: Scuttled at Temryuk, Sea of Azov
Because exit to the Black sea was controlled by German forces
24/08/1942: Temryuk wa captured by German forces


Shields Daily Gazette, Wednesday, 23/05/1894

Shields Daily Gazette, Tuesday, 29/05/1894