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Name: REPTON
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 22/12/1893
Completed: 02/1894
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 191
Dimensions: 2881grt, 1852nrt, 312.5 x 41.0 x 20.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 36.5 & 62 x 39ins), 245nhp
Engines by: Central Marine Engine Works, West Hartlepool
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 102838
History:
02/1894 Repton Steamship Co Ltd (Galbraith, Pembroke & Co), London
1897 Austin Friars Steam Shipping Co Ltd (Galbraith, Pembroke & Co), London
1917 Managers became Houlder, Middleton & Co Ltd
07/05/1917 Sank
Comments: 07/05/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat UB43, 45 miles SSE of Cape Matapan
On a voyage from Hull to Mudros with a cargo of coal