Name: | PILTON |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 1919 |
Completed: | 01/1920 |
Builder: | Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company |
Yard: | Willington Quay |
Yard Number: | 218 |
Dimensions: | 3063grt, 1848nrt, 331.1 x 46.8 x 23.1ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (25, 41 & 68 x 45ins), 358nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 144319 |
History: | |
01/1920 | Atlantic Shipping & Trading Co Ltd (WJ Tatem Ltd), London |
1922 | WJ Tatem Ltd, Cardiff / London |
1938 | Rederi A/B Sigyn (H Lundgren), Helsingborg; renamed SILJAN |
26/09/1940 | Sank |
Comments: | Laid down as WAR CHINE for the Shipping Controller |
26/09/1940: Sank after being torpedoed by U-Boat U46 when 250 miles | |
West of Ireland on a voyage from Cardiff to Lisbon with a cargo of coal. |