ROBERT CRAGGS & SONS, STOCKTON and MIDDLESBROUGH

Name IAKOUT or YAKUT (rebuilt from OITHONA of 1887)
Type Despatch vessel
Yard Number 102
Launched 05/11/1892
Completed 07/12/1892
Off. Number  
Engine builder Hall, Russell & co., Aberdeen
Engine type T. 3cyl
GRT 752
Length (feet) 205.2
Beam (feet) 27.7
First owner Imperial Russian Navy
History 1887 built as OITHONA by Hall, Russell & Co., Aberdeen (yn.245) for Aberdeen S.N. Co. Ltd., passenger / cargo vessel
1892 rebuilt by Craggs as IAKOUT, despatch vessel, Russian Navy
01/1921 arrived at Bizerta with the 'Wrangell Squadron' and sold
1922 G. M. LA VALLETTE, Emanuele Chetcuti, Malta
1926 E. Scamama-Lagardere, Tunis
1934 IONION, D. Papoulis & K. Tsesmelis, Spetsai
1938 Giuseppe Riccardi, Genoa
Fate 1937 broken up in Italy ... believed at Savona

Photo from collection of Vasilyev Kirill, as a despatch vessel, possibly H.M.S. ALGERINE in background

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