Name: | COUNTY ANTRIM |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 15/01/1889 |
Completed: | 02/1889 |
Builder: | Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Bill Quay |
Yard Number: | 12 |
Dimensions: | 1963grt, 1221nrt, 270.0 x 37.0 x 18.4ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (20, 33 & 54 x 36ins) 175nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 93179 |
History: | |
02/1889 | County Steamship Co Ltd (WJ Woodside), Belfast |
1898 | Schmidt & Hansen, Flensburg; renamed NEPTUN |
1905 | H Schmidt, Flensburg |
1915 | French Government (SA de Chargeurs del’Ouest), Brest |
24/09/1919 | Wrecked |
Comments: | 04/08/1914: Captured by French warships off Le Havre |
24/09/1919: Wrecked at the entrance to the Loire | |
On a voyage from Barry to Nantes with a cargo of coal |