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Name: DOMINION
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 13/11/1902
Completed: 01/1903
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 282
Dimensions: 4021grt, 2581nrt, 352.6 x 47.2 x 27.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (23.5, 39 & 66 x 48ins), 302nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 115965
History:
01/1903 English & American Shipping Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co), London
1916 Renamed GAFSA
28/03/1917 Sank
Comments: 28/03/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U57, 10 miles SE of Kinsale Head
On a voyage from Port Arthur to the UK with a cargo of fuel oil


Shields Daily Gazette, Saturday, 15/11/1902