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Name: FOLGATE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 10/09/1904
Completed: 10/1904
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 725
Dimensions: 3562grt, 2307nrt, 340.5 x 47.0 x 24.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (23.5, 39 & 66 x 45ins), 314nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 120463
History:
10/1904 Folgate Steamship Co Ltd (HW Dillon), London
1912 G Vergottis, Argostoli; renamed KALYPSO
1915 West Russian SS Co Ltd, Petrograd; renamed KONDOR
28/04/1917 Sank
Comments: 28/04/1917: Captured & scuttled by U-Boat UC36, 90 miles W of Ouessant
On a voyage from Cardiff to Gibraltar with a cargo of coal & ammunition