Name: | SILVIA |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 05/08/1913 |
Completed: | 09/1913 |
Builder: | Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company |
Yard: | Willington Quay |
Yard Number: | 187 |
Dimensions: | 5268grt, 3331nrt, 355.3 x 51.0 x 32.3ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (27, 45 & 74 x 48ins), 514nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 135498 |
History: | |
04/09/1913 | Oil Tank Steamship Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co Ltd), Liverpool |
23/08/1915 | Sank |
Comments: | 23/08/1915: Captured, shelled & sunk by U-Boat U38, 47 miles W of Fastnet |
On a voyage from Halifax NS to Queenstown with a cargo of oil |
Jarrow Express, Friday, 08/08/1913