Name: | PORT KEMBLA |
Type: | Refrigerated Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 22/07/1910 |
Completed: | 09/1910 |
Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 439 |
Dimensions: | 4700grt, 2990nrt, 400.6 x 52.7 x 26.2ft |
Engines: | Q4cyl (25, 36, 52 & 76 x 51ins), 590nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 12.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 129131 |
History: | |
31/08/1910 | Anglo-Australasian Steam Navigation Co Ltd (W Milburn & Co), London |
1914 | Commonwealth & Dominion Line Ltd, London |
18/09/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | 18/09/1917: Sank after being mined off Cape Farewell, New Zealand |
On a voyage from Melbourne to London with a cargo of frozen meat and lead | |
The mine was laid by SMS WOLF on 27/06/1917 |