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Name: MARGARET
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 02/12/1899
Completed: 02/1900
Builder: John Readhead & Sons
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 344
Dimensions: 3497grt, 2267nrt, 341.0 x 46.6 x 24.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 40 & 65 x 45ins), 294nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 109236
History:
22/01/1900 Franz CE Rahtkens & Co, Middlesbrough
1901 Craig Line Steamship Co Ltd (Russell & Co), Leith
1903 Renamed CRAIGELLACHIE
1911 Neil Steamship Co Ltd (CW Lister), London; renamed NEILROSE
1912 M Maresca & Co, Genoa; renamed MAR-CORUSCO
14/05/1915 Sank
Comments: 14/05/1915: Sank after a collision with LETIMIL off Gibraltar
On a voyage from Baltimore to La Spezia with a cargo of coal


Lloyd's List, Monday, 04/12/1899