Name: | LECONFIELD |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 25/06/1889 |
Completed: | 08/1889 |
Builder: | Schlesinger, Davis & Co |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 153 |
Dimensions: | 2237grt, 1462nrt, 285.0 x 39.2 x 20.2ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (21, 33 & 54 x 42ins), 195nhp |
Engines by: | Black, Hawthorn & Co, Gateshead |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 95802 |
History: | |
30/08/1889 | Gordon R Sanderson & Co, Hull |
1893 | East Riding Steam Navigation Co Ltd (GR Sanderson & Co), Hull |
1900 | Cairn Line of Steamships Ltd (Cairns, Young & Noble), Newcastle |
1900 | Renamed CAIRNESK |
1904 | Managers became Cairns, Noble & Co |
1911 | Otto Banck, Helsingborg; renamed TUVA |
07/10/1916 | Sank |
Comments: | 07/10/1916: Captured, torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U48 off northern Finland |
On a voyage from Arkhangelsk to Hull with a cargo of timber |
Above as photo as LECONFIELD is copyright of the Museet for Sofart
Marine Engineer, July 1889