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Name: PORT PHILLIP
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 06/09/1906
Completed: 09/1906
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 412
Dimensions: 4060grt, 2586nrt, 380.4 x 49.1 x 25.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (27, 45 & 74 x 48ins), 442nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 123708
History:
09/1906 W Milburn & Co, London
1914 Commonwealth & Dominion Line Ltd, London
16/10/1918 Sank
Comments: 16/10/1918: Sank after a collision with USS PROTEUS in the Ambrose Channel
On a voyage from New York to UK ports carrying general cargo