Name: | TREASURY |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 30/01/1896 |
Completed: | 03/1896 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 705 |
Dimensions: | 2956grt, 1885nrt, 325.0 x 43.0 x 20.3ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (22.5, 36.5 & 61 x 42ins), 245nhp |
Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 9.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 105371 |
History: | |
03/1896 | Treasury Steamship Co Ltd (W Thomas & Co), Liverpool |
1905 | Managers became W Thomas, Sons & Co Ltd |
1915 | Steamship Elmgrove Co Ltd (Alexander & Mair), Glasgow; renamed ELMGROVE |
29/05/1916 | Sank |
Comments: | 29/05/1916: Captured, shelled & sunk by U-Boat U39, 96 miles NE of Algiers |
On a voyage from Toulon to Huelva in ballast |
Above photo as TREASURY is courtesy of Richard Cox
Above photo as TREASURY is courtesy of Clive Ketley