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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