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Name: MOORSIDE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched:
Completed: 11/1921
Builder: RB Harrison & Son Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 2
Dimensions: 270grt, 99nrt, 117.1 x 22.2 x 9.1ft
Engines: C2cyl (15 & 32 x 22ins), 57rhp
Engines by: Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 144851
History:
26/11/1921 Wear Steam Shipping Co (1917) Ltd (T Rose, manager), Sunderland
1926 Robert Rix & Sons, Hull; renamed PEGRIX
1936 Ramsey Steamship Co Ltd (J Ramsay, manager), Ramsey, IoM
1936 Renamed BEN ELLAN
06/07/1961 Broken up
Comments: 06/07/1961: Sold for breaking up at Dublin


Above photo as BEN ELLAN is courtesy of Clive Ketley