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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.