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Name: HALLSIDE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 28/07/1919
Completed: 09/1919
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 217
Dimensions: 3037grt, 1855nrt, 331.4 x 46.8 x 23.1ft
Engines: T3cyl (25, 41 & 68 x 45ins), 358nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 142841
History:
09/1919 Charlton Steam Shipping Co Ltd (Charlton, McAllum & Co Ltd), Newcastle
1929 F Sainz e Inchaustegui, Bilbao; renamed DELFINA
1934 Marques del Real Socorro, Bilbao
1936 Basque Government; renamed ITXAS-GANE
1939 Marques del Real Socorro, Bilbao; renamed DELFINA
04/02/1940 Wrecked
Comments: Laid down as WAR CREEK for the Shipping Controller
1936: Requisitioned by the Basque Government
09/1937: Laid up at Cardiff during Spanish Civil War
04/02/1940: Wrecked at mouth of the Guadalquivir near Bonanza on a voyage
from Gijon to Sevilla with a cargo of coal


Above photo as HALLSIDE courtesy of Clive Ketley