Name: | HEWORTH |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 23/06/1900 |
Completed: | 08/1900 |
Builder: | Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Bill Quay |
Yard Number: | 91 |
Dimensions: | 1043grt, 656nrt, 220.0 x 33.2 x 14.4ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (17.5, 28 & 46 x 33ins), 133nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 9.5knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 110355 |
History: | |
08/1900 | Burnett Steamship Co Ltd (Burnett & Co), Newcastle |
1904 | Heworth Steamship Co Ltd (ER Newbigin), Newcastle |
1907 | Newbigin Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Newcastle |
11/1915 | Imperial German Navy |
12/1918 | Newbigin Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Newcastle |
1923 | Giannoulis G Paleocrassas (L Boyazides, Brother & Co), Andros |
1926 | Renamed GEORGIOS PALEOCRASSAS |
12/12/1931 | Wrecked |
Comments: | 08/1914: Detained at Hamburg |
11/1915: Served as a collier in Imperial German Navy | |
12/1918: To the UK as war reparations | |
12/12/1931: Wrecked near Gallipoli | |
On a voyage from Soukhoum to Porto Empedocle with timber. |
Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 25/06/1900