Name: | HOLZAPFEL I |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 16/02/1911 |
Completed: | 05/1911 |
Builder: | JT Eltringham & Co |
Yard: | South Shields |
Yard Number: | 276 |
Dimensions: | 279grt, 155nrt, 120.2 x 22.1 x 10.5ft |
Engines: | Gas; (1913: 2cyl (16 & 32 x 22ins)), 60rhp |
Engines by: | Holzapfel Marine Gas Power Syndicate, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 129770 |
History: | |
27/04/1911 | Holzapfel Marine Gas Power Syndicate, Newcastle |
1915 | Renamed LUFFWORTH |
by 1927 | Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd (J Hamilton, manager), Newcastle |
1935 | Sea & Land Securities, Newcastle |
1940 | Follows Steamship Co, Newcastle |
1950 | Broken up |
Comments: | 1911: Gas-powered as an experimental ship |
As first built she was not fitted with a funnel | |
1913: Re-engined by Hepple & Co, South Shields | |
21/06/1940: Scuttled at Brest & taken as a war prize by Germany | |
1950: Broken up |
Above photo as HOLZAPFEL I is copyright of the Illustrated London News
Above photo as LUFFWORTH is courtesy of Richard Cox
London Daily News, Thursday, 16/02/1911
Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 24/04/1911