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Name: NENTMOOR
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 29/07/1903
Completed: 09/1903
Builder: John Readhead & Sons
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 371
Dimensions: 3535grt, 2283nrt, 341.0 x 46.6 x 25.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 40 & 65 x 45ins), 296nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 118620
History:
09/1903 North Moor Steamships Ltd (W Runciman & Co), Newcastle
1906 Moor Line Ltd (W Runciman & Co), Newcastle
20/04/1917 Sank
Comments: 20/04/1917: Captured, shelled & sunk by U-Boat U35 when 140 miles
west of Gibraltar at position 35.25N – 08.02W
On a voyage from Rosario to Gibraltar with a cargo of wheat


Shields Daily News, Thursday, 30/07/1903