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ss LAKE ERIE
built by Barclay Curle & Company Glasgow,
Yard No 420
Last Name: PRYGONA (1921)
Previous Names: TYROLIA (1913) HMS CENTURION (1914) SAXOL (1916) ASPENLEAF (1916)
Propulsion: steam, twin screw, 13 knots
Launched: Tuesday, 21/11/1899
Built: 1900
Ship Type: Passenger Cargo Vessel
Tonnage: 7550 grt
Length: 446 feet
Breadth: 52 feet
Owner History:
Elder Dempster & Co Liverpool
1903: Canadian Pacific
1916: Lane & MacAndrew
1917: Shipping Controller
1919: Shell
Status: Sold for Scrapping - 06/02/1925
Remarks: Quite a varied career! Maiden voyage 30/1/1900 as a Boar War Transport. Sold to CPR when they acquired Elder Dempster's Canadian interests. Chartered by the Allan Line 1906. Refitted in 1910. Converted to dummy battleship HMS CENTURION 1914. Then served as troopship and then stores ship. Converted to oiler in 1916. Sold to Petersen & Albeck, Copenhagen for scrap 1925
Previous update by Bruce Biddulph
Photo supplied by Stuart Cameron
Last updated: by George Robinson from the original records by Stuart Cameron
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