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Name: EMPIRE
Launched: 14/11/1901
Completed: 01/1902
Builder: Hepple & Co Ltd, South Shields
Yard Number: 530
Dimensions: 115grt, 3nrt, 90.5 x 19.6 x 10.9ft; (by 1930: 141grt, 3nrt)
Engines: C2cyl (18 & 38 x 25ins), 98nhp; (by 1918: 60hp)
Engines By: Hepple & Co Ltd, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 114827
History:
1902 Empire Towing Co (Mason & Lilley), Gravesend; registered at London
1904 Navegación à Vapor Nicolás Mihanovich SA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1909 Argentine Navigation Co (Nicolas Mihánovich) Ld, Buenos Aires
1932 Cia Argentina de Navegación Mihanovich, Buenos Aires
1942 Cia Argentina de Navegación Dodero SA, Buenos Aires
1949 Flota Argentina de Navegación de Ultramar
1959 Flota Argentina de Navegación Fluvial
1962 Broken up
Comments: Thanks to Historia y Arqueología Marítima for the above details