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Name: TREFUSIS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 18/03/1893
Completed: 04/1893
Builder: John Readhead & Sons
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 288
Dimensions: 2642grt, 1708nrt, 299.0 x 40.1 x 20.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 37.5 & 61.5 x 39ins), 232nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 98249
History:
04/1893 E Hain & Son, St Ives
1901 Hain Steamship Co Ltd (E Hain & Son), St Ives
07/04/1917 Sank
Comments: 07/04/1917: Captured & scuttled by U-Boat U65, 30 miles SE of Cape Pula, Sardinia
On a voyage from Cardiff to Alexandria with a cargo of coal


Above photo is courtesy of Richard Cox

Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 20/03/1893