Name: | LANCASTER CASTLE |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 29/05/1919 |
Completed: | 08/1919 |
Builder: | Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd |
Yard: | Howdon |
Yard Number: | 273 |
Dimensions: | 5625grt, 3529nrt, 399.6 x 53.0 x 32.8ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (27, 44 & 73 x 48ins), 517nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 140642 |
History: | |
08/1919 | Lancashire Shipping Co Ltd (J Chambers & Co), Liverpool |
1936 | Seafarers Steamships Ltd (Stathatos & C0), London; renamed SEAPHARER |
1938 | DD Stathatos, Ithaca; renamed ELENI STATHATOS |
28/01/1940 | Sank |
Comments: | Laid down as WAR TERRACE for The Shipping Controller |
28/01/1940: Sank after being torpedoed by U-Boat U34 when 200 miles | |
West of the Scilly Isles on a voyage from Newport to the US Gulf in ballast. |
Above photo as LANCASTER CASTLE