SS Potaro
British refrigerated cargo steamship that was captured and scuttled in WW1 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SS Potaro was a refrigerated cargo steamship that was built in Belfast in 1904, and captured and scuttled in the First World War in 1915.
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Name | Potaro |
Namesake | Potaro River |
Owner | Royal Mail Steam Packet Co |
Operator | 1915: Imperial German Navy |
Port of registry | Belfast |
Ordered | 24 June 1903 |
Builder | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
Yard number | 364 |
Launched | 14 September 1904 |
Completed | 8 December 1904 |
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Captured | 10 January 1915 |
Fate | scuttled 6 February 1915 |
General characteristics | |
Type | refrigerated cargo ship |
Tonnage | 4,378 GRT, 2,793 NRT |
Length | 375.0 ft (114.3 m) |
Beam | 48.3 ft (14.7 m) |
Depth | 25.8 ft (7.9 m) |
Decks | 2 |
Installed power | 378 NHP |
Propulsion | triple expansion engine |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h) |
Capacity | 222,719 cu ft (6,307 m3) refrigerated cargo |
Sensors and processing systems | 1912: submarine signalling |
Notes | sister ships: Parana, Pardo |
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Potaro was the third of a trio of sister ships built for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP) in 1904. Her sisters were Parana and Pardo. They were the first RMSP ships equipped to carry frozen cargo.
This was the first of two Royal Mail ships to be called Potaro. The second was a motor ship that was built in 1940, sold and renamed in 1965, and scrapped in 1970.[1][2]