Name: | CAPE CORRIENTES |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 25/04/1891 |
Completed: | 06/1891 |
Builder: | Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company |
Yard: | Willington Quay |
Yard Number: | 87 |
Dimensions: | 2598grt, 1666nrt, 300.5 x 38.6 x 20.6ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (23, 38 & 63 x 42ins), 246nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 97968 |
History: | |
06/1891 | W Milburn & Co, Newcastle |
1897 | Speeding & Marshall Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Newcastle |
1900 | Golcar Steamship Co Ltd (WS Allan & Co), Sunderland |
1908 | Managers became Shaw & Co, Newcastle |
1911 | W Coupland & Co, Newcastle |
1914 | GF Andreadis, Piraeus; renamed VRONTADOS |
30/06/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | 30/06/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by a U-Boat in the Mediterranean |