Name: | MILWAUKEE |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 07/11/1896 |
Completed: | 01/1897 |
Builder: | CS Swan & Hunter Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 214 |
Dimensions: | 7323grt, 4784nrt, 470.0 x 56.1 x 31.9ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (28, 46 & 75 x 54ins), 502nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 106834 |
History: | |
01/1897 | AL Jones & Elder, Dempster & Co, Liverpool |
1898 | Elder Dempster & Co, Liverpool |
1900 | Elder Dempster Shipping Ltd, Liverpool |
1903 | Canadian Pacific Railway Co, Liverpool |
1916 | Canadian Pacific Railway Ocean Lines, Liverpool |
31/08/1918 | Sank |
Comments: | 16/09/1898: Stranded near Peterhead, forepart lost |
1899: New forepart built by CS Swan & Hunter Ltd under yard number 238 | |
June 1899: Returned to service | |
31/08/1918: Sank after being torpedoed by U-Boat U105 260 miles SW of the | |
Fastnet (47.22N 12.14W) on a voyage from London to Montreal with general cargo |
Above photo copyright of Carl Gosta Jackson
Above photo courtesy of Photoship
Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 09/11/1896
Above 2 photos copyright of The Engineer
Hampshire Telegraph & Sussex Chronicle, 15/04/1899