Name: | SARDINIA |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 09/07/1914 |
Completed: | 09/1914 |
Builder: | Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Bill Quay |
Yard Number: | 189 |
Dimensions: | 1500grt, 749nrt, 285.2 x 38.7 x 16.4ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (21, 34 & 56 x 36ins), 188nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
09/1914 | D/S A/S Otto Thoresens Linie (Otto Thoresen), Christiania |
23/01/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | 23/01/1917: Captured & scuttled by U-Boat U59, 140 miles SW of Brest |
On a voyage from Teneriffe to London with a cargo of fruit |
Newcastle Journal, Friday, 10/07/1914