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Name: BLAKEMOOR
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 19/12/1888
Completed: 01/1889
Builder: John Readhead & Sons
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 244
Dimensions: 1702grt, 1104nrt, 259.0 x 36.0 x 17.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (20.5, 33.5 & 55 x 36ins), 181nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 88817
History:
01/1889 W Runciman & Co, South Shields
1898 North Moor Steamships Ltd (W Runciman)
1899 W Constantine, South Shields
1901 Constantine & Pickering SS Co, South Shields; renamed ROSEWOOD
1914 The Admiralty
1914 Sank
Comments: 1914: Scuttled as a blockship in Scapa Flow to the west of Lamb Holm