SS Pruth (1916)

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Name: SS Pruth
Owner: Hain Steamship Company
Builder: J.L. Thompson and Sons, Sunderland
Yard number: 511
Identification: IMO number: 1139109
Fate: Wrecked upon Nateara Reef, Port Moresby in 1923
General characteristics
Tonnage: 4698 gross register
Length: 121.9 metres (400 ft)
Beam: 16.2 metres (53 ft)
Depth: 7.9 metres (26 ft)
Installed power: 421 n.h.p. [1]
Propulsion: Triple expansion engine [1]
Speed: 10 knots [1]

SS Pruth was a 4698 gross register ton [1] steam ship built by J.L. Thompson and Sons, Sunderland for the Hain Steamship Company in 1916. She was on a voyage from New York to Cairns, via Port Moresby when she was wrecked upon Natara Reef [ clarification needed ] near Port Moresby on 31 December 1923. Attempts to salvage her failed. [2] Her wreck became known as the "Moresby Wreck".

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "SS Pruth (+1923)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  2. ↑ "Pruth, A Total Wreck". Townsville Daily Bulletin, Wednesday 23 January 1924, p.4. Retrieved 16 July 2012.

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