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Name: TREGENNA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 11/02/1892
Completed: 04/1892
Builder: John Readhead & Sons
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 279
Dimensions: 2623grt, 1691nrt, 298.4 x 40.1 x 20.1ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 37.5 & 61.5 x 39ins), 232nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 98248
History:
04/1892 E Hain & Son, St Ives
1901 Hain Steamship Co Ltd (E Hain & Son), St Ives
1915 Stathe SS Co Ltd (JS Rees), Cardiff; renamed STATHE
26/09/1916 Sank
Comments: 26/09/1916: Captured, shelled & sunk by U-Boat U35, 50 miles ExS of Barcelona
On a voyage from Cardiff to Livorno with a cargo of coal


Above photo as TREGENNA courtesy of Stuart Smith