Name: | FOLGATE |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 10/09/1904 |
Completed: | 10/1904 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 725 |
Dimensions: | 3562grt, 2307nrt, 340.5 x 47.0 x 24.6ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (23.5, 39 & 66 x 45ins), 314nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 120463 |
History: | |
10/1904 | Folgate Steamship Co Ltd (HW Dillon), London |
1912 | G Vergottis, Argostoli; renamed KALYPSO |
1915 | West Russian SS Co Ltd, Petrograd; renamed KONDOR |
28/04/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | 28/04/1917: Captured & scuttled by U-Boat UC36, 90 miles W of Ouessant |
On a voyage from Cardiff to Gibraltar with a cargo of coal & ammunition |