Name: | CORDELIA |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 24/10/1930 |
Completed: | 01/1931 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 1437 |
Dimensions: | 8190grt, 5005nrt, 460.4 x 59.5 x 34.1ft |
Engines: | Oil engine, 4SCSA, H&W-B&W type, 8cyl (29.125 x 59.1ins), 652nhp |
Engines by: | JG Kincaid & Co Ltd, Greenock |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.0knots |
Reg Number: | 162332 |
History: | |
15/01/1931 | Oil Tank Steamship Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co Ltd), Liverpool |
03/02/1943 | Sank |
Comments: | 03/02/1943: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U632, 500 miles south of Iceland |
On a voyage from Curacao & New York to the Clyde with a cargo of naval fuel oil | |
Lloyd's Register has completion as 03/1932 |
Shields Daily News, Saturday, 17/01/1931