Category:Venus (ship, 1907)

Ship[edit]

• Type: General cargo ship
• Built by: De Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij N.V., Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Yard No: 10
• Keel laid:
• Launched: 1907.09.07
• Delivered: 1907.09.25
• Length over all: 270.1 ft
• Beam: 38.2 ft
• GRT: 1855
• DWT: 2870
• Sister ship: Vesta (1907, yard #9)
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History[edit]

• 1907 Named Venus; Flag: Netherlands
  • Official number: 5057 Z ROTT 1931
  • Call sign: PWHG
  • Port: Amsterdam
  • Owner: Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot-Maatschappij N.V., Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• 1918.03 Seized by the British Government in Gibraltar; Flag: United Kingdom
  • Port: London
  • Owner: The Shipping Controller, London, Great Britain
• 1919.01 Returned to Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot-Maatschappij; Flag: Netherlands
  • Call sign: PWHG
  • Official number: 685 Z AMST 1927 (1927)
  • Port: Amsterdam
• 1933 Call sign: PIFF
• 1951.11 Sold to F. Italo Croce, Genoa, Italy; renamed Ezilda Croce; Flag: Italy
  • Call sign: IBXM
  • Port: Genoa
• 1955 Sold to Vincenzo Muro fu Nicola, Naples, Italy; renamed Solchiaro
  • Call sign: IBXM
  • Port: Naples
• 1966 Broken up in Trieste