Name: | DON DIEGO |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 21/06/1906 |
Completed: | 07/1906 |
Builder: | John Readhead & Sons |
Yard: | West Yard, South Shields |
Yard Number: | 394 |
Dimensions: | 3632grt, 2321nrt, 350.0 x 50.1 x 23.2ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (25, 41 & 67 x 45ins), 326nhp |
Engines by: | John Readhead & Sons, South Shields |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 9.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 123681 |
History: | |
07/1906 | Buenos Ayres & Pacific Railway Co Ltd (G Dodd), London |
21/05/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | 21/05/1917: Captured, shelled & sunk by U-Boat U65, 40 miles ExS of Linosa Island |
On a voyage from Swansea to Alexandria with a cargo of government stores |
Shields Daily News, Friday, 22/06/1906