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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