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Name: SAN ANDRES
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 27/04/1911
Completed: 06/1911
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 169
Dimensions: 1655grt, 728nrt, 270.0 x 40.8 x 18.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (22, 36 & 60 x 39ins), 225nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
06/1911 D/S A/S Otto Thoresens Linie (O Thoresen), Christiania
11/05/1918 Sank
Comments: 11/05/1918: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U86, 100 miles W of Lundy Island
On a voyage from the Mediterranean to Norway via Swansea with general cargo


Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 28/04/1911