Name: | HORDEN |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 17/04/1916 |
Completed: | 08/1916 |
Builder: | Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Bill Quay |
Yard Number: | 196 |
Dimensions: | 2677grt, 1607nrt, 321.0 x 43.2 x 19.5ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (24, 40 & 65 x 42ins), 329nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.5knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 133583 |
History: | |
01/08/1916 | Burnett Steamship Co Ltd (Burnett & Co), Newcastle |
1928 | Tynedale Steam Shipping Co Ltd (Kirsop, Marshall & Co), Newcastle |
1937 | Scotia Corp, Panama (Spanish Republican Government); renamed HORDENA |
1937 | Spanish Nationalist Government; renamed FERROLANO |
1939 | Spanish Government (AR Escudero), Cadiz; renamed CASTILLO LA MOTA |
1942 | Empresa Nacional ‘Elcano’ SA, Cadiz |
12/1963 | Broken up |
Comments: | 16/04/1937: Captured by Spanish Nationalist ALMIRANTE CERVERA in the Bay of Biscay |
On a voyage from Gdynia to Santander with a cargo of airplanes & engines | |
12/1963: Broken up at Seville by Pedro Valles Fernandez & Cesario Martin-Sanz Garcia |
Above photo as CASTILLO LA MOTA is courtesy of Photoship