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Name: REDHILL
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 16/07/1901
Completed: 08/1901
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 757
Dimensions: 3889grt, 2504nrt, 365.0 x 48.2 x 25.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (24.5, 41.5 & 70 x 45ins), 459nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 114738
History:
26/08/1901 Surrey Steamship Co Ltd, London
1910 Hull, Blyth & Co, London
1912 Soc Anon Anversoise de Navigation, Antwerp; renamed LIÉGEOISE
14/08/1916 Sank
Comments: 14/08/1916: Captured, shelled & sunk by U-Boat U38, 75 miles south of Marseille
On a voyage from Newport to Genoa with a cargo of coal