Category:Castor (ship, 1916)
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Ship
[edit]- Type: Icebreaker, converted to minelayer
- Built by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd., Neptune Yard, Low Walker
- Yard No: 1020
- Keel laid:
- Launched: 1916.08.29
- Completed: 1916.11
- Length over all: 485.6 ft
- Beam: 61.3 ft
- GT: 2432
- DWT:
- www.tynebuiltships.co.uk
History
[edit]- 1916 Named Kosma Minin; Flag: Russia
- Port: Arkhangelsk
- Owner: Russian Government
- 1920.12 Brought by White Russians to Cherbourg; interned
- 1928 Renamed Castor; Flag: France
- Converted to minelayer
- 1942.12.08 Seized by Germans at Bizerte; given to Italians
- 1942 Renamed FR 60; Flag: Italy
- 1943.06.07 Scutted at Bizerte
- 1946 Refloated; returned to French
- 1947.08.18 Scrapped in Bizerte
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