Name: | PORT CURTIS |
Type: | Refrigerated Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 08/06/1910 |
Completed: | 07/1910 |
Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 437 |
Dimensions: | 4710grt, 2998nrt, 400.6 x 52.7 x 26.2ft |
Engines: | Q4cyl (25.5, 36, 52.5 & 76 x 51ins), 590nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 12.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 129118 |
History: | |
21/07/1910 | W Milburn & Co, London |
1914 | Commonwealth & Dominion Line Ltd, London |
07/08/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | 07/08/1917: Captured & scuttled by U-Boat UC71, 70 miles west of Penmarch |
On a voyage from Bahia Blanca to Cherbourg with a cargo of oats |
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