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Name: SANTA CRUZ
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 17/06/1905
Completed: 05/09/1905
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 739
Dimensions: 4988grt, 3134nrt, 392.7 x 47.9 x 28.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (25.5, 43 & 74 x 48ins), 380nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 143097
History:
05/09/1905 Hamburg-Sudamerikanische DG, Hamburg
1919 Shipping Controller, UK Government, London
1920 Hall Line Ltd, Liverpool; renamed MERTON HALL
1926 Ellerman Lines Ltd (Hall Line Ltd, managers), Liverpool; renamed CITY OF SALFORD
01/12/1933 Broken up
Comments: 01/12/1933: Broken up by R Smith & Co at Port Glasgow


Photo as CITY OF SALFORD courtesy of Richard Cox