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Name: SIR CHARLES TENNANT
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 22/03/1894
Completed: 05/1894
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 319
Dimensions: 2415grt, 1555nrt, 294.4 x 41.7 x 19.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (22.5, 38 & 62 x 42ins), 296nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 104252
History:
05/1894 Scott Brothers Ltd, Newcastle
1913 Sho Sho Yoko, Uraga; renamed TOSAN MARU
1916 Renamed TANSAN MARU
22/05/1917 Sank
Comments: 22/05/1917: Sank after being torpedoed by U-Boat U46,
about 80 miles west of Annagh Head, Ireland.
On a voyage from Boston to Manchester with general cargo


Above photo as SIR CHARLES TENNANT courtesy of Clive Ketley