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Name: DEMETRI or DIMITRIY
Launched: 08/02/1894
Completed: 03/1894
Builder: Anderson, Laverick & Co Ltd
Yard Number: 16
Dimensions: 90grt
Engines: C2cyl (11 & 22 x 16ins), 20nhp, 125ihp
Engines by: Ross & Duncan, Glasgow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
03/1894 DE Manusi, Taganrog
1903 DA Negroponte, Taganrog
1912 PS Logothetti, Taganrog
02/06/1916 Russian Imperial Navy, Black Sea fleet
1918 Unknown owner
15/12/1920 Soviet Navy - Black Sea fleet
01/01/1932 Renamed GLOBUS
1958 Broken up
Comments: 30/03/1894: Satisfactory trial trip
Manusi, Negroponte & Logothetti were part of the Vaglianos Bros organisation
02/06/1916: Requisitioned into the Danube flotilla as a tug
1918 - 1920: Russian civil war. Unknown owners
17/11/1920: Found abandoned at Kerch
15/12/1920: Used as a tug
20/05/1923: Used as a hydrographic vessel
1933 - 1935: Rebuilt
1950: Used as a pilot vessel


Shields Daily News, Monday, 12/02/1894