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Name: COUNTY ANTRIM
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 15/01/1889
Completed: 02/1889
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 12
Dimensions: 1963grt, 1221nrt, 270.0 x 37.0 x 18.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (20, 33 & 54 x 36ins) 175nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 93179
History:
02/1889 County Steamship Co Ltd (WJ Woodside), Belfast
1898 Schmidt & Hansen, Flensburg; renamed NEPTUN
1905 H Schmidt, Flensburg
1915 French Government (SA de Chargeurs del’Ouest), Brest
24/09/1919 Wrecked
Comments: 04/08/1914: Captured by French warships off Le Havre
24/09/1919: Wrecked at the entrance to the Loire
On a voyage from Barry to Nantes with a cargo of coal