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Name: ENDYMION
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 08/12/1880
Completed: 01/1881
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 427
Dimensions: 2416grt, 1447nrt, 291.3 x 37.3 x 24.5ft
Engines: C2cyl (31 & 68 x 45ins), 242nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 82843
History:
01/1881 Hall Brothers, London
1896 E Hulin, Rouen; renamed VILLEQUIER
1906 JB Dallest, Marseille
1909 Prosper Durand, Marseille & Algiers
1911 Soc ‘les Affréteurs Réunis’ (J Stern), Bordeaux; renamed JEANNE CONSEIL
28/11/1917 Sank
Comments: 1896: Sold for about £6,000 and intended to be renamed CROISSET
28/11/1917: Sank after being torpedoed by U-Boat UB59 when 28 miles
SW of Pointe de Poulains, Belle Ile. On a voyage from Algiers to Rouen


Above photo as ENDYMION is courtesy of Société d'Archéologie et de Mémoire Maritime