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Name: HEATHDENE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 05/08/1898
Completed: 10/1898
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 364
Dimensions: 3456grt, 2228nrt, 340.0 x 45.7 x 24.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 39 & 66 x 45ins), 292nhp
Engines by: T Richardson & Sons Ltd, Hartlepool
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 106644
History:
10/1898 JT Lunn & Co, Newcastle
1898 Forest Oak Steam Shipping Co (H Sherwood, manager), Newcastle
1898 Renamed FOREST DALE
1910 Neptune Steam Navigation Co Ltd (Furness Withy), Newcastle
1910 Renamed CLEVELAND RANGE
1913 Fratelli Gavarone, Genoa; renamed GIUSEPPE G
191X Soc Anon Ilva, Genoa
24/07/1918 Sank
Comments: The only turret steamer produced by Hawthorn Leslie
24/07/1918: Sank after an explosion off Cape Polonio
On a voyage from Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro with wheat & oats


Above photo as HEATHDENE courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as CLEVELAND RANGE courtesy of Richard Cox