Name: | FELBRIDGE |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 25/07/1888 |
Completed: | 08/1888 |
Builder: | CS Swan & Hunter |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 132 |
Dimensions: | 2128grt, 1334nrt, 280.0 x 37.5 x 19.3ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (22, 36 & 59 x 39ins), 223nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 95455 |
History: | |
08/1888 | Felbridge SS Co Ltd (WR Price & Co), London |
1897 | J Hoggarth & Co, London |
1901 | Gaelic Steamhsips Ltd (Cairns, Young & Noble), Newcastle |
1901 | Renamed CAIRNSTRATH |
1904 | Managers Cairns, Noble & Co |
1911 | Cairn Line of Steamships Ltd (Cairns, Noble & Co) |
1917 | Capel & Co (Newcastle & Hull) Ltd (Cairns, Noble & Co) |
04/08/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | 04/08/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat UC71, 6 miles SSW of Ile du Pilier |
On a voyage from Bilbao to the Tyne with a cargo of iron ore |