Name: | LUCY ANDERSEN |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 29/02/1904 |
Completed: | 04/1904 |
Builder: | Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Bill Quay |
Yard Number: | 117 |
Dimensions: | 1052grt, 637nrt, 220.3 x 35.0 x 14.0ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (17, 28 & 46 x 33ins), 133nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a; (1916: 139269) |
History: | |
04/1904 | Nielsen, Andersen & Co, Newcastle |
04/1904 | A/S D/S Lucy Andersen (H Svarrer), Copenhagen |
1916 | Roberts & Cooper Ltd (Chas Graham & Co), Hull |
12/03/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | 04/1904: Sold before registering at Newcastle |
12/03/1917: Captured, shelled & sunk by U-Boat UC44, 55 miles off Wick | |
On voyage from Hartlepool to Gothenburg with a cargo of coal |
Above photo courtesy of George Robinson
Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 04/03/1904
Shields Daily News, Tuesday, 05/04/1904