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Name: GOSFORTH
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 21/07/1898
Completed: 08/1898
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 75
Dimensions: 1077grt, 644nrt, 220.0 x 33.1 x 14.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (17.5, 28 & 46 x 33ins), 132nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 106642
History:
08/1898 Burnett & Co, Newcastle
1903 L Possehl & Co; renamed ALTONA
1908 Hamburg-Altona Kohlen Import GmbH v/Possehl, Altona
1912 Harries Bros & Co, Newcastle; renamed GOSFORTH
2Q/1933 Broken up
Comments: 2Q/1933: Broken up at Stockton by South Stockton Shipbreaking Co


Above photo courtesy of Clive Ketley