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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