| Name: | FOREST BROOK |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 06/08/1895 |
| Completed: | 10/1895 |
| Builder: | CS Swan & Hunter |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 198 |
| Dimensions: | 2689grt, 1729nrt, 300.0 x 43.0 x 24ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (23, 38 & 61 x 39ins), 232nhp |
| Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 104291 |
| History: | |
| 10/1895 | Forest Oak Steam Shipping Co Ltd (H Sherwood), Newcastle |
| 1904 | Managers became Jackson Bros & Cory |
| 1907 | Ibex Steamship Ltd (Jackson Bros & Cory); renamed IBEX |
| 1909 | Anglo-Hellenic Steamship Co Ltd (AA Embiricos & Co), Andros; renamed PATRAS |
| 1914 | Fratelli Denegri, Genoa |
| 01/1927 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Built as a turret deck ship to a design patented by William Doxford of Sunderland |
| The design was quite common in the late 19th and early 20th centuries | |
| The hulls of turret deck vessels were rounded and stepped inward above their waterlines | |
| This gave some advantages in strength and allowed them to pay lower canal tolls under | |
| the tonnage measurement rules then in effect | |
| The turret type ceased to be built after those rules changed | |
| 01/1927: Broken up at Genoa |
Above image of a typical Turret steamer is copyright of the National Maritime Museum
Above image of a typical Turret steamer is copyright of the National Maritime Museum
Above image of a typical Turret steamer is copyright of the National Maritime Museum
Above image of a typical Turret steamer is copyright of the National Maritime Museum
Shields Daily Gazette, Tuesday, 08/10/1895