Name: | TRELYON |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 12/06/1919 |
Completed: | 08/1919 |
Builder: | John Readhead & Sons Ltd |
Yard: | West Yard, South Shields |
Yard Number: | 11 |
Dimensions: | 5294grt, 3232nrt, 400.0 x 52.4 x 28.5ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (27, 44 & 73 x 48ins), 513nhp |
Engines by: | John Readhead & Sons Ltd, South Shields |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 142571 |
History: | |
16/08/1919 | Hain Steamship Co Ltd (E Hain & Son), St Ives |
1938 | Rickmers Rhederei AG, Hamburg; renamed HANS RICKMERS |
30/11/1942 | Destroyed |
Comments: | Laid down as WAR PLOVER for the UK Shipping Controller |
A wartime standard "B type" cargo ship | |
30/11/1942: Beached after being mined off Petsamo | |
Subsequently destroyed by Russian field artillery |
Above photo is copyright of A Duncan
Above photo is courtesy of Stuart Smith
Shields Daily News, Friday, 13/06/1919