Name: | SAN WILFRIDO |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 11/02/1914 |
Completed: | 04/1914 |
Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 856 |
Dimensions: | 6458grt, 3928nrt, 420.3 x 54.7 x 32.6ft |
Engines: | Q4cyl (24, 35, 50.5 & 73 x 51ins), 554nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 136658 |
History: | |
02/04/1914 | Eagle Oil Transport Co Ltd, London |
03/08/1914 | Sank |
Comments: | 03/08/1914: Mined & sunk off Cuxhaven |
On a voyage from Hamburg to Portland & New Orleans in ballast | |
She had left Hamburg the day before war was declared | |
09/1920: Wreck removed |
Newcastle Journal, Thursday, 12/02/1914