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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 is copyright of Carl Gosta Jackson

Above photo is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo, showing the salved afterbody in dock, is courtesy of John R Short

Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 09/11/1896

Above 2 photos copyright of The Engineer

Hampshire Telegraph & Sussex Chronicle, 15/04/1899