Name: | CHESTERFIELD |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 30/10/1913 |
Completed: | 12/1913 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 924 |
Dimensions: | 1013grt, 535nrt, 250.0 x 34.2 x 16.0ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (21.5, 35 & 58 x 39ins), 278nhp |
Engines by: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 13.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 135986 |
History: | |
04/12/1913 | Great Central Railway Co, London; registered at Grimsby |
18/05/1918 | Sank |
Comments: | 10/1914: Requisitioned by The Admiralty as a store carrier and fleet messenger |
18/05/1918: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat UC52, 42 miles NExE of Malta | |
On a voyage from Milos to Malta with a cargo of cordite |
Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Monday, 03/11/1913