Name: | LILBURN TOWER |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 06/06/1883 |
Completed: | 05/08/1883 |
Builder: | J Wigham Richardson & Co |
Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 149 |
Dimensions: | 2872grt, 1892nrt, 4430dwt, 330.2 x 38.3 x 27.8ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (40 & 74 x 48ins), 400nhp |
Engines by: | J Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots (trials) |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 87140 |
History: | |
05/08/1883 | Stumore & Weston & Co, London |
1890 | Cia de Nav La Flecha, Bilbao; renamed PEDRO |
1898 | United States Navy; renamed HECTOR |
10/10/1899 | Union Sulphor Co (JW Ewell, managers), New York |
1908 | EF Luckenbach, USA; renamed D N LUCKENBACH |
27/10/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | Contract Price £45400, Profit £6034-10s-0d |
1898: Taken as a prize in the Spanish - American war. | |
22/06/1898: Commissioned into the US Navy as the HECTOR at Key West. | |
Patrolled between Key West and Tampa. | |
17/09/1898: De-commissioned at Boston | |
27/10/1917: Torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the Bay of Biscay. |