Category:Rio Bravo (ship, 1924)
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Source: Miramar Ship Index
See also category: Merkur (ship, 1924).
Ship
[edit]- Built by: Germaniawerft, Frederick Krupp AG, Kiel
- Yard No: 458
- Date of completion: 1924.08.xx
- Length over all: 119.8 m
- Beam: 15.8 m
- GRT: 5952
- Main engine: diesel engined Twin screw
- Speed: 12 kn
History
[edit]- 1924 Named: Rio Bravo for the Flensburg Steamship Co (H Schuldt) for South American passenger service Flag: Germany
- 1931 Laid up because of the depression
- 1932 Sold to Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL)
- 1934 Expanded NDL services between Australia, New Guinea and Hong Kong. Renamed: Merkur Flag: Germany
- 02.1934 Arrived in Sydney and a refrigeration plant was installed. She began her first sailing in the service to Java-Singapore
- 1935 Sold to Burns Philp while on her way to Sydney from Europe. Registered in Singapore.
- 12.1941 Commissioned in the Royal Australian Navy and was fitted out as a "victualling storage stores issuing supply ship" She supplied stores to Australian and allied naval vessels across the Pacific theatre from New Guinea to the Philippines.
- 1945 At the end of the war Merkur carried relief supplies to Borneo
- 04.1946 Carried supplies from Australia to Kure, Japan for the occupation troops
- 1948 Returned to Sydney, extensively refitted
- 09.1949 Handed back to Burns, Philp, and returned to the Singapore service.
- 1953 Sold for scrapping purposes
- 01.1954 Broken up at Osaka
Media in category "Rio Bravo (ship, 1924)"
The following 4 files are in this category, out of 4 total.
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Germaniawerft (Kiel 45.861).jpg 1,024 × 649; 90 KB
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Rio Bravo NDL.jpg 600 × 211; 10 KB
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SS Rio Bravo - Flensburg Steamship Company 1925-1.jpg 3,251 × 2,165; 3.47 MB
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SS Rio Bravo - Flensburg Steamship Company 1925.jpg 3,797 × 2,895; 4.51 MB