Category:Parita (ship, 1881)

Ship[edit]

• Iron screw steamship.
• Built by William Gray & Co., Hartlepool.
• 1881.04.02 Launched
• 1881.04 Completed
• 939 GRT.
• 216ft L, 31ft B, 13ft D.
• Compound steam engine and one boiler operating at 80lbs/sqin pressure supplied by Blair & Co Ltd ., Stockton.
• Speed: 9 knots.

Off No. 82018

History[edit]

• 1881.04.02 Named: MERANNIO for Marshall, Dodson & Co, Leith. ( David Marshall & W.H. Dodson partners) 13 Bernard Street, Leith. Port of Reg : Leith.
• 1887 Sold to D Marshall .
• 1891 Sold to Steamship "Merannio" Co Ltd. (Maclay & Mcintyre managers) Glasgow. NNC.
• 1901 Sold to General Steam Navigation Company Ltd., London, and reboilered.
• 1920.10.31 Takeover of the General Steam Navigation Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
• 1930 Sold to Saorstat & Continental Steamship Company Ltd, Dublin. (Palgrave, Murphy & Co, managers) Renamed: CITY OF CORK.
• 1938 Sold to Noemijulia Steamship Co Ltd., (S. Catsell & Co Ltd., managers) London Renamed: BUTE
• 1939 Sold to Greece.
• 1939.06.26 After being converted at Sète, sailed as BUTE with 80 refugees already on board. Renamed PARITA Embarked refugees at Constanta.
• 1939.07.13 Departed Galatz, Romania, with 850 total refugees including 540 Betar members.
• 1939.08.09 At Izmir with engines disabled and without provisions. The passengers ordered the captain to head for Palestine.
• 1939.08.23 They let the crew leave and ran the ship onto the beach at Tel Aviv.