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Name: LADY PALMER
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 14/08/1889
Completed: 10/1889
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 624
Dimensions: 2753grt, 1802nrt, 322.0 x 40.3 x 24.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (23.5, 38 & 62 x 42ins), 243nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 96159
History:
29/10/1889 Hall Brothers, Newcastle
1907 Lady Palmer Steamship Co Ltd (E Nicholl & Co), Cardiff
1907 Welbeck Hall Steamship Co Ltd (E Nicholl & Co), Cardiff; renamed WELBECK HALL
1913 A/S Ellavore (Lundegaard & Stray), Farsund; renamed ELLAVORE
06/02/1917 Sank
Comments: 06/02/1917: Captured & scuttled by U-Boat UC24, 35 miles north of Cap Vilano
On a voyage from Naples & Valencia to London with a cargo of fruit & wine


Above photo as WELBECK HALL is courtesy of Clive Ketley