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Name: ARIEL
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 04/10/1906
Completed: 10/1906
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 137
Dimensions: 1381grt, 849nrt, 254.0 x 38.0 x 16.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (19, 31 & 51 x 36ins), 156nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number:
History:
10/1906 A/S Aries (LB Rofen), Holmestrand, Norway
1908 A/S Manchester (Thor Thoresen), Christiania; renamed GRANFOS
21/04/1912 Wrecked
Comments: 21/04/1912: Wrecked on the Heiskar Rocks, west of Canna, Norway


Above photo as ARIEL is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as GRANFOS is courtesy of Richard Cox