Name: | SHEARWATER |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 11/04/1888 |
Completed: | 07/1888 |
Builder: | HS Edwards & Sons |
Yard: | Howdon |
Yard Number: | 40 |
Dimensions: | 967grt, 581nrt, 214.0 x 31.2 x 13.8ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (16, 26.5 & 44 x 33ins), 108nhp |
Engines by: | E Scott & Co, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 95245 |
History: | |
1888 | Sharp & Co, Newcastle |
1897 | E Tinel, Le Havre; renamed PIERRE ANDRÉ |
1900 | A/S Kulkompagniet af 1871 (E Hougland), Bergen; renamed BJØRN |
1912 | RM Peterson, Christiania |
1914 | A/S Jelølinjen (R Peterson), Christiania |
1915 | A/S Grenland (H Haraldsen), Skien; renamed GRENLAND |
1916 | Government of Germany |
1923 | Emil R Retzlaff, Stettin; renamed FLOSSHILDE |
1931 | W Schmidt (Notraco GmbH), Stettin; renamed NOTRACO I |
1932 | Rederi & Speditions A/B Nordstjernan, Helsingfors; renamed NOTRACO |
06/01/1940 | Wrecked |
Comments: | 17/12/1915; Captured by SMS V43 north of Skagen on a voyage from |
Gothenburg to Hull and subsequently condemned by a prize court | |
1916: Used by the German Government as an army transport | |
06/01/1940: Wrecked outside Torhamn | |
On a voyage from Helsingfors to Gothenburg with a cargo of wood pulp |