Name: | HEBBURN |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 05/05/1924 |
Completed: | 07/1924 |
Builder: | Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Bill Quay |
Yard Number: | 234 |
Dimensions: | 2881grt, 1685nrt, 333.8 x 44.6 x 21.6ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (23, 38.5 & 65 x 42ins), 359nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 148075 |
History: | |
01/07/1924 | Burnett Steamship Co Ltd (Burnett & Co), Newcastle |
1934 | Gascony SS Co Ltd (Michael Whittaker Newcastle Ltd), Newcastle |
1935 | Hebburn SS Co Ltd (WA Souter & Co Ltd), Newcastle |
1938 | Stanhope Steamship Co Ltd (JA Billmeir & Co Ltd), London; renamed STANBURN |
29/01/1940 | Sank |
Comments: | 29/01/1940: Bombed & sunk 10 miles SE by E of Flamborough Head |
On a voyage from Zeebrugge to the Tyne in ballast |
Above photo as HEBBURN is courtesy of Kevin Blair