Name: | GULF OF GUINEA |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 11/08/1888 |
Completed: | 09/1888 |
Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 282 |
Dimensions: | 2548grt, 1860nrt, 320.0 x 40.3 x 22.6ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (26, 42 & 69 x 48ins), 361nhp |
Engines by: | Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 93206 |
History: | |
26/09/1888 | Greenock Steam Ship Co Ltd, Greenock |
1892 | Gulf Line Association Ltd, Greenock |
1900 | Gulf Line Ltd (D MacDougall), Greenock |
1900 | Nederlandsche Stoomv Mij "Oceaan", Amsterdam; renamed MEMNON |
1906 | Ban Yensho, Uraga; renamed TOGO MARU |
1907 | Watanabe Kumashiro, Hakodate |
1913 | Kanamori Gomei Kaisha, Hakodate |
1917 | Yamashita Kisen KK, Nishinomiya |
20/07/1923 | Sank |
Comments: | 20/07/1923: Sank near Shokukuzen, in position 34.06N - 124.40E |
On a voyage from Tsingtao to Yokohama with a cargo of coal, coke & cattle |
Above photo as MEMNON is copyright of the GJ de Boer collection
Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Monday, 13/08/1888