Name: | CHERUSKIA launched as GLEN CALADH TOWER |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 17/05/1890 |
Completed: | 08/1890 |
Builder: | Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 18 |
Dimensions: | 3254grt, 2093nrt, 344.5 x 41.3 x 18.9ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (25.5, 41 & 67 x 42ins), 291nhp |
Engines by: | Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
08/1890 | Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hamburg |
1916 | Government of Portugal - Transportes Maritimos do Estado, Lisbon |
1916 | Renamed LEIXOES |
12/09/1918 | Sank |
Comments: | 17/05/1890: Launched as GLEN CALADH TOWER for F Stumore & Co, London |
08/1914: Laid up at Lisbon | |
23/02/1916: Seized by the Government of Portugal | |
12/09/1918: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U155 east of Newfoundland | |
On a voyage from Hull to Boston Massachusetts |