Name: | OILFIELD |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 14/05/1896 |
Completed: | 06/1896 |
Builder: | Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company |
Yard: | Willington Quay |
Yard Number: | 111 |
Dimensions: | 4005grt, 2564nrt, 345.0 x 47.2 X 21.9ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (27, 44 & 71 x 48ins), 394nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 12.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 104299 |
History: | |
06/1896 | Hunting & Son, Newcastle |
1914 | Hunting Steamship Co Ltd (Hunting & Son), Newcastle |
16/03/1918 | Beached |
Comments: | 16/03/1918: Beached near Stornoway after being torpedoed by U-Boat U90 |
15 miles off Cape Wrath on a voyage from Grangemouth to New York in ballast | |
1918: The after part was salvaged and broken up on the Clyde |
Above photo as XXX copyright of Clive Ketley