Name: | SANDLAND |
Type: | Sand Pump Hopper |
Launched: | 06/06/1925 |
Completed: | 07/1925 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 1273 |
Dimensions: | 1549grt, 821nrt, 205.2 x 42.7 x 18.4ft; (1943: 2213grt, 250.8ft) |
Engines: | T3cyl (16, 27 & 44 x 30ins), 152nhp |
Engines by: | MacColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Reg Number: | 148132 |
History: | |
07/1925 | HW Terry & HD Robertson, Newcastle |
1926 | Ontario Gravel Freighting Co Ltd, Newcastle |
1933 | Manager JW Elliott, Newcastle |
1943 | Bowater's Newfoundland Pulp & Paper Mills Ltd, St John's, Newfoundland |
1949 | Edwin ET Sampson, Montreal |
1951 | Beaconsfield Steamships Ltd, Montreal |
1961 | Sandland Ships Ltd (Albert Shipping, Montreal), Nassau |
1963 | SA Venezolana de Empresas Maritimas, Caracas; renamed TRITON |
1973 | Broken up |
Comments: | 1943: Converted to a dry cargo and lengthened to 250.8ft |
1953: Re-engined with a Fairbanks Morse, 9cyl, oil engine - manufactured in 1943 | |
1967: Re-engined with a Fairbanks Morse oil engine | |
1972: Sold for breaking up | |
1973: Broken up at Puerto Cabello by IA Diques y Astilleros Nacionales |
Above photo courtesy of the Kenneth Thro collection
Above description copyright of the Toronto Marine Historical Society
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Above description copyright of the Toronto Marine Historical Society
Above photo courtesy of the Kenneth Thro collection
Above photo courtesy of the Kenneth Thro collection
Above photo courtesy of the Kenneth Thro collection