Name: | NORTH BRITAIN |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 16/09/1940 |
Completed: | 11/1940 |
Builder: | J Readhead & Sons Ltd |
Yard: | South Shields |
Yard Number: | 519 |
Dimensions: | 4635grt, 2683nrt, 405.6 x 53.6 x 24.4ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (23, 38 & 65 x 42ins), 406nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co (1938) Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 165801 |
History: | |
22/11/1940 | North Shipping Co Ltd (Hugh Roberts & Son, managers), Newcastle |
05/05/1943 | Sank |
Comments: | 05/05/1943: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U707 in position 300 miles south of Greenland |
On a voyage from Glasgow to Halifax, Nova Scotia, with a cargo of firebricks & fireclay |