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Name: BRUNEL
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 06/10/1888
Completed: 11/1888
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 67
Dimensions: 2176grt, 1299nrt, 286.7 x 37.0 x 22.1ft
Engines: T3cyl (22, 36.5 & 60 x 39ins), 229nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 89837
History:
11/1888 James Watt, North Shields
1898 E Anquetil fils, Rouen; renamed FERDINAND A
1903 Soc les Affréteurs Réunis (J Stern), Rouen
21/05/1917 Sank
Comments: 21/05/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat UB36, 15 miles North of Ouessant
On a voyage from the Clyde to Nantes


Above photo as FERDINAND A courtesy of Richard Cox