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Name: TELEFON
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 30/12/1899
Completed: 02/1900
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 87
Dimensions: 1538grt, 968nrt, 255.0 x 36.0 x 15.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (18.5, 30 & 49 x 33ins), 138nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1911: 130121)
History:
02/1900 A/S D/S Telefon (PA Grøn), Sandefjord
1911 Lovart Steamship Co Ltd (Love & Stewart Ltd), Bo’ness; renamed KINNEIL
31/10/1913 Sank
Comments: 26/12/1908: Stranded at Admiralty Bay, South Shetland when inbound
from Rotterdam with a cargo of coal and empty drums
Subsequently salvaged and repaired
30/10/1913: Sank after a collision with DENEBOLA off Skagen
On a voyage from Wiborg to Bo’ness with pitwood


Above image as TELEFON copyright of Dambatens Vestfold

Shields Daily Gazette, Tuesday, 02/01/1900