Name: | QUEEN ELIZABETH |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 07/1907 |
Completed: | 09/1907 |
Builder: | Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd |
Yard: | Howdon |
Yard Number: | 147 |
Dimensions: | 4225grt, 2748nrt, 360.3 x 48.0 x 28.0ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (25, 41 & 69 x 48ins), 372nhp |
Engines by: | Richardsons, Westgarth & Co Ltd, Sunderland |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 124221 |
History: | |
09/1907 | Merito Shipping Co Ltd (T Dunlop & Sons), Glasgow |
1919 | Dunlop SS Co Ltd (T Dunlop & Sons), Glasgow |
1919 | Western Counties Shipping Co Ltd (E Edwards & Sons), Cardiff |
1920 | Renamed VALEMEAD |
1922 | Moor Line Ltd (W Runciman & Co Ltd), Newcastle; renamed NEWTONMOOR |
1927 | Arbor Shipping Co Ltd (Howard Tenens Ltd), London; renamed ORNUS |
1927 | SN Vlassopulos, Ithaca; renamed MARIA |
1935 | Ioannis N Vlassopulos & others, Ithaca |
05/06/1937 | Beached |
Comments: | 05/06/1937: On fire about 20 miles SW of Fernando Noronha |
On a voyage from Gdynia to Rio de Janeiro with a cargo of coal | |
Beached at Fernando Noronha as a total loss. |