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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.