Name: | LEAFIELD |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 06/05/1905 |
Completed: | 06/1905 |
Builder: | Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Bill Quay |
Yard Number: | 125 |
Dimensions: | 2539grt, 1616nrt, 313.3 x 45.0 x 20.5ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (23, 37.5 & 61.5 x 39ins), 266nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 9.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 118659 |
History: | |
06/1905 | Steamship Leafield Co Ltd (Alfred Brewis), Newcastle |
1915 | Donald & Taylor, Glasgow |
1923 | Clyde Commercial Steamships Ltd (RW Bryce & WG Taylor, managers), Glasgow |
1932 | Mirupanu Steamship Co Ltd (WG Walton), Glasgow; renamed MIRUPANU |
1946 | D/S Draco A/S (R Fischer-Nielsen), Copenhagen; renamed SALLING |
1954 | Behwa Shipping Co Inc (John Svensson, Stockholm), Monrovia; renamed JOLLY |
23/06/1955 | Broken up |
Comments: | 23/06/1955: Broken up at Boom, Belgium |
Photo as LEAFIELD courtesy of George Robinson
Photo as SALLING copyright of the Robert Bomans Collection