Dana leaving Copenhagen 1928 for circumnavigation of the world
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMT John Quilliam |
Owner | British Admiralty |
Builder | Cochrane & Sons, Selby |
Yard number | 801 |
Launched | 12 March 1917 |
Completed | 30 August 1917 |
Out of service | 1921 |
Identification | Call sign: NCWR |
Notes | Armed with QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun |
Denmark | |
Name | Dana II |
Owner | Danish Ministry of Fisheries |
Port of registry | Copenhagen |
In service | 1921 |
Out of service | 1935 |
Identification | Call sign: OXQC |
Fate | Sunk in collision |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | converted Mersey-class trawler |
Type | Steam trawler |
Tonnage | 354 GRT / 163 NRT |
Length | 138.2 feet |
Beam | 23.7 feet |
Draught | 12.8 feet |
Decks | 1 |
Propulsion | 500 hp triple expansion steam engine, Richardsons, Westgarth & Co. |
Speed | 11 knots |
Crew | 18 |
Dana was a Danish research vessel, best known for the circumnavigation of the world in the third Dana expedition 1928–1930. It sank in 1935 after a fishing vessel collided with it in fog.