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Name: OTHELLO
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 21/03/1905
Completed: 05/1905
Builder: Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number: 123
Dimensions: 3680grt, 2391nrt, 353.3 x 47.2 x 25.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 40 & 66 x 48ins), 344nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 120847
History:
05/1905 Red Cross Shipping Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co Ltd), Liverpool
1916 Whitehall Steam Navigation Co Ltd (Blow, Richards & Co), Liverpool
1916 Renamed WHITECOURT
28/08/1917 Sank
Comments: 28/08/1917: Captured, shelled & sunk by U-Boat U28, 120 miles NNE of North Cape
On a voyage from Arkhangelsk to London with a cargo of timber


Shields Daily News, Thursday, 23/03/1905