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Name: ABERFELDY
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 29/06/1889
Completed: 08/1889
Builder: John Readhead & Sons
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 250
Dimensions: 2228grt, 1446nrt, 290.0 x 39.0 x 20.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (22, 36 & 60 x 39ins), 229nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 97361
History:
08/1889 Maclean, Doughty & Co, West Hartlepool
1900 Doughty & Co, West Hartlepool
1901 Doughty Shipping Co Ltd, West Hartlepool
1905 Echevarrieta y Larrinaga, Puerto Cortes; renamed BERNABÉ
1908 Registered at Montevideo
1914 Registered at Bilbao
13/11/1915 Wrecked
Comments: 13/11/1915: Wrecked at Roitre des Bassets, between
La Coubre and Pertuis de Maumusson, south of Rochefort
On a voyage from Cardiff to Bordeaux with a cargo of coal