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Name: SOUTHWOOD
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 13/10/1899
Completed: 11/1899
Builder: William Dobson & Co
Yard: Walker
Yard Number: 106
Dimensions: 1173grt, 668nrt, 212.3 x 35.0 x 14.1ft
Engines: T3cyl (18.5, 30 & 49 x 33ins), 148nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 112618
History:
11/1899 CF Cory-Wright, London
1904 W Cory & Son Ltd, London
1914 Gennaro Malinconico, Torre del Greco; renamed SANTA CROCE
1916 Cambo Shipping Co Ltd, Middlesbrough
1918 Melrose Abbey Shipping Co Ltd, Middlebrough; renamed MELROSE ABBEY
1919 Burnham Shipping Co Ltd, Cardiff; renamed SHENSTONE
1923 GH Allin & Co Ltd, Cardiff
1924 J Messinis, Ithaca; renamed DOLLY
1927 LA Karystinakis, Andros
1928 Renamed MINA
1930 J Michelmann & J Adamson & Co, Parnu
13/12/1939 Sank
Comments: 13/12/1939: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U57, off the Cross Sand Light Vessel
On a voyage from London to Gothenburg in ballast. All 17 crew died


Above photo courtesy of Richard Cox