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Name: WALLSEND
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 09/1917
Completed: 10/1917
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 205
Dimensions: 2697grt, 160nrt, 321.2 x 43.3 x 19.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 40 & 65 x 42ins), 329nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 140702
History:
29/10/1917 Burnett Steamship Co Ltd (Burnett & Co), Newcastle
14/08/1918 Sank
Comments: 14/08/1918: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat UB104, 3 miles SE of Robin Hood’s Bay
On a voyage from Hartlepool to London with a cargo of coal