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Name: NORTHTON
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 20/05/1924
Completed: 06/1924
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1184
Dimensions: 2227grt, 1354nrt, 248.0 x 43.0 x 22.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (20.5, 33 & 54 x 36ins), 213nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Reg Number: 148077
History:
06/1924 Mathews SS Co Ltd (AE Mathews), Newcastle / Toronto
1934 Colonial Steamships Ltd (R Scott Misener), Toronto
1944 Government of Newfoundland - Commissioner of Public Works, St John's
1946 Paterson Steamships Ltd, Fort William, Ontario; renamed NOVADOC
03/03/1947 Missing
Comments: 03/03/1947: Last reported 22 miles east of Portland, Maine on a voyage
from Deepbrook, Nova Scotia to New York with a cargoof gypsum


Above photo as NORTHTON copyright of Bowling Green State University