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Name: WILEYSIKE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 12/05/1888
Completed: 06/1888
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 65
Dimensions: 2501grt, 1607nrt, 300.0 x 38.5 x 20.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (21, 38 & 63 x 42ins), 248nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 95248
History:
06/1888 W Milburn & Co, Newcastle
1896 Rowland & Marwood’s Steamship Co Ltd (Chr Marwood), Whitby
1906 WS Miller & Co, Glasgow
1916 Wileysike Steamship Co Ltd (WS Miller & Co), Glasgow
09/05/1918 Sank
Comments: 09/05/1918: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U54 when 8 miles SW of St Ann’s Head
On a voyage from Glasgow to France with a cargo of coal


Above photo as WILEYSIKE courtesy of Clive Ketley