Vampires (ship)
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The Vampire was a passenger ship on the Gambia River in the West African state of Gambia . It was used for regular traffic along the river.
Technical specifications
The ship had 72 gross register tons and the dimensions 20.42 × 4.11 m. The draft of the ship was 1.83 m (according to another source: 33.53 × 4.15 m). It was operated by two steam engines.
The ship was shown as a motif on postage stamps in 1980.
history
The ship was built in 1913 by the British shipyard Philip & Co. in Dartmouth as Yard no 421 for the then British colony of Gambia . The ship was launched on November 24, 1913 and was put into operation in 1917 , probably delayed by the First World War . The ship was christened Vampire .
During their operation, it moved over a distance of 390 kilometers or 300 miles from the Gambian capital Bathurst (today's name: Banjul) on the Atlantic Ocean upstream to Basse Santa Su . It covered this distance in around a week.
The Vampire was in use until 1939, nothing is known about the further fate of the ship.