Name: | KENTON |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | |
Completed: | 01/1927 |
Builder: | Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company |
Yard: | Willington Quay |
Yard Number: | 226 |
Dimensions: | 3930grt, 2412nrt, 355.3 x 50.5 x 24.1ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (25, 41 & 68 x 45ins), 357hp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 149422 |
History: | |
01/1927 | International South American SS Co Ltd (A Stott & Co Ltd), Newcastle |
1933 | Guardian Line Ltd (Walter Vaughan (Cardiff) Ltd), Newcastle |
1933 | Renamed KENKERRY |
17/01/1935 | Wrecked |
Comments: | 09/03/1923: Laid down, work later suspended until 1926 |
17/01/1935: Wrecked on Black Rock Point near Portuguese Cove, Nova | |
Scotia on a voyage from Havana to Halifax in ballast. |