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Name: TROPEA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 09/07/1892
Completed: 08/1892
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 310
Dimensions: 4013grt, 2603nrt, 360.0 x 46.2 x 19.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (22, 40 & 68 x 45ins), 317nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 99433
History:
1892 EC Thin, Liverpool
1895 Steamship Cairngorm Ltd (EC Thin), Liverpool
1901 Lunn & Maccoy, Newcastle; renamed BIRDOSWALD
26/06/1917 Sank
Comments: 26/06/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U63, 25 miles ExS of Tarragona
On a voyage from Livorno to Carthagena with a cargo of hemp