Name: | NORTHTON |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 20/05/1924 |
Completed: | 06/1924 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Neptune yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 1184 |
Dimensions: | 2227grt, 1354nrt, 248.0 x 43.0 x 22.8ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (20.5, 33 & 54 x 36ins), 213nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Reg Number: | 148077 |
History: | |
06/1924 | Mathews SS Co Ltd (AE Mathews), Newcastle / Toronto |
1934 | Colonial Steamships Ltd (R Scott Misener), Toronto |
1944 | Government of Newfoundland - Commissioner of Public Works, St John's |
1946 | Paterson Steamships Ltd, Fort William, Ontario; renamed NOVADOC |
03/03/1947 | Missing |
Comments: | 03/03/1947: Last reported 22 miles east of Portland, Maine on a voyage |
from Deepbrook, Nova Scotia to New York with a cargoof gypsum |
Above photo as NORTHTON copyright of Bowling Green State University