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Name: LE PROGRES
Launched: 30/04/1892
Completed: 05/1892
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd, Low Walker
Yard Number: 594
Dimensions: 449grt, 205nrt, 164.0 x 27.0 x 13.5ft
Engines: 2 x C2cyl (16 & 30 x 18.5ins), 70nhp
Engines By: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 155998
History:
1892 Cie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez, Port Said
1923 Renamed LE PROGRES NO 119
1933 Anglo-Persian Shipping & Trading Co Ltd; renamed LE PROGRES
1935 Tank Coasters (Progres) Ltd, Malta
1937 MR Ogdevin et al, Turkey
1942 German Kreigsmarine
21/10/1942 Sank
Comments: Specialist combined tanker and tug for use in the Suez Canal
21/10/1942: Torpedoed by Russian submarine M35 off Sulina, Black Sea.


Photo copyright Newcastle City Libraries

The Marine Engineer, June 1892