PS Bruselas (1911)

PS Bruselas
History
Argentina
Owner	Compañía Argentina de Navigation (Nicolás Mihanovich) Ltda, Buenos Aires
Builder	A. & J. Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow, Scotland Scotland
Yard number	297
Launched	9 November 1911
Completed	December 1911
Decommissioned	Scrapped in 1972 but only deleted from register in 1982
General characteristics
Length	273 feet 9 inches
Beam	37 feet 1 inch
Draught	8 feet 6 inches

The PS Bruselas was built by A. & J. Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow, Scotland and launched in 1911 for Compañía Argentina de Navigation (Nicolás Mihanovich) Ltda, Buenos Aires.

Ownership

She was owned by the Croatian entrepreneur Nicolás Mihanovich, who had established a substantial local shipping business in Argentina. However, during the First World War he experienced some unforeseen political difficulties like other Europeans who had settled overseas. Thus he formed a new company in 1909 in London, Argentine Navigation Co (Nicholas Mihanovich) Ltd, to raise capital to fund the purchase of British built river and coastal passenger steamers. As Croatia was part of the Austrian Empire and therefore at war with Britain, the 72-year-old Mihanovich, decided to sell the British company and its Argentinean subsidiaries to a group of Philipps companies. On the sales date the group of his Argentinean companies owned 71 vessels, including passenger ships, tugs and barges. The companies’ main services were an overnight express route from Buenos Aires to Montevideo and a passenger service up-river to Rosario.