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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