Name: | SAINT GOTHARD |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 24/04/1880 |
Completed: | 05/1880 |
Builder: | John Readhead & Co |
Yard: | Lawe Yard, South Shields |
Yard Number: | 159 |
Dimensions: | 1564grt, 966nrt, 255.0 x 34.2 x 23.0ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (31 & 59 x 36ins), 154nhp |
Engines by: | John Readhead & Co, South Shields |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 81969 |
History: | |
26/05/1880 | Cay, Hall & Co, South Shields |
1900 | Clydebank Steamship Co Ltd (Robertson, Mackie & Co), Glasgow |
1903 | Iberian Steamship Co Ltd (JH Wackerbarth & Co), Liverpool; renamed IBERIA |
1906 | Managers became Whimster & Co, Glasgow |
1912 | Gart Steamship Co Ltd (Whimster & Co), Glasgow; renamed GARTSHORE |
1915 | The Admiralty |
No later history known | |
Comments: | 1915: Sold to the Admiralty for use as a blockship but not used |
Subsequently used as a mooring hulk but final fate not recorded | |
1928: Deleted from Lloyd’s Register |
Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 24/05/1880