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Name: AZTEC launched as CANTERBURY
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 21/06/1894
Completed: 09/1894
Builder: Edwards Shipbuilding Co Ltd
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number: 69
Dimensions: 3508grt, 2298nrt, 350.0 x 43.0 x 26.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 40 & 66 x 45ins), 299nhp
Engines by: Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 104837
History:
09/1894 Albert N Smith, London
1897 Pacific Mail Steamship Co, Honolulu
1898 Registered at New York
01/04/1917 Sank
Comments: Launched as CANTERBURY for Blindell Bros & Co, Newcastle
01/04/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U46, 25 miles west of Ouessant
On a voyage from New York to Le Havre with a cargo of copper & steel


Above photo courtesy of Gallica Bibliotheque