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Name: GERTY
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 27/04/1903
Completed: 06/1903
Builder: John Readhead & Sons
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 369
Dimensions: 4212grt, 2715nrt, 346.0 x 45.0 x 25.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (25, 42 & 68 x 45ins), 322nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1927: 153721)
History:
06/1903 Unione Austriaca di Nav SA, Trieste
1919 Unione di Nav SA, Trieste
1920 Cosulich Soc Triestina di Nav, Trieste
1927 Anglo Maritime Shipping Ltd, Gibraltar; renamed CITY OF CANDIA
09/1929 Broken up
Comments: Accommodation for 20 x passengers
13/09/1929: Arrived at Bo’ness for breaking up by P&W MacLellan Ltd


Shields Daily Gazette, Wednesday, 29/04/1903