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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