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Name: NORTHLAND
Type Passenger Refrigerated Cargo Ship
Launched: 29/01/1926
Completed: 04/1926
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1214
Dimensions: 3445grt, 2029nrt, 287.7 x 47.2 x 22.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (23.5, 38 & 62 x 42ins), 393nhp
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 13.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 149409
History:
30/04/1926 Eastern Shipping Co (Clarke Steamship Co Ltd), Quebec; registered at Newcastle
1927 Renamed NEW NORTHLAND
1929 Clarke Steamship Co Ltd, Quebec
1930 Registered at Quebec
1942 Ministry of War Transport (Elder, Dempster Lines Ltd, managers); registered at London
1947 Seaway Steamship Line Ltd; registered at Quebec
1948 Flota Mercante Dominicana CpA, Ciudad Trujillo; registered at Ciudad Trujillo
1948 Renamed NUEVO DOMINICANO
17/10/1953 Wrecked
Comments: Accommodation for 142 x 1st Class & 66 x 3rd Class passengers
1940: Requisitioned by the Canadian Government as a troopship
17/10/1953: Wrecked near Cape Moa Light House, 21nm west of Baracoa, Cuba
On a voyage from Miami to Ciudad Trujillo in ballast


Above photo as NEW NORTHLAND is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as NUEVO DOMINICANO is courtesy of Richard Turnwald

The Scotsman, Monday, 17/05/1926