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Name: FERNSIDE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 11/04/1921
Completed: 06/1921
Builder: RB Harrison & Son Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 1
Dimensions: 269grt, 98nrt, 117.1 x 22.2 x 9.1ft
Engines: C2cyl (15 & 32 x 22ins), 57rhp
Engines by: Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 144834
History:
21/06/1921 Wear Steam Shipping Co (T Rose), Sunderland
by 1933 Rose Line Ltd, Sunderland
26/02/1942 Missing
Comments: 26/02/1942: Sailed from Hartlepool & presumed sunk by air attack off Banff
On a voyage from Hartlepool to Wick with a cargo of coal
2007: Wreck located 4 miles off Stonehaven


Above photo is courtesy of Clive Ketley

Above photo of FERNSIDE on the Exeter Ship Canal is copyright of Mervyn Sellick

Above photo is courtesy of Stephen Swinhoe

Shields Daily News, Tuesday, 12/04/1921