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Name: DONNACONA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 22/09/1900
Completed: 11/1900
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 93
Dimensions: 1906grt, 1222nrt, 245.0 x 42.6 x 20.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (18.5, 30.5 & 51 x 36ins), 156rhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 110363
History:
11/1900 Hamilton & Fort William Navigation Co, Newcastle
1908 Donnacona Ltd (Inland Lines Ltd), Hamilton, Ontario
1914 Canada Steamship Lines, Hamilton, Ontario
16/10/1915 Sank
Comments: 16/10/1915: Foundered in mid Atlantic, in position 52.25N x 30.15W
On a voyage from Maryport to Sydney NS with a cargo of manganese ore


Above photo courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo copyright of Bowling Green State University

Above photo copyright of Chicago Daily News

Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 24/09/1900