Name: | TREWELLARD |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 28/05/1914 |
Completed: | 07/1914 |
Builder: | John Readhead & Sons Ltd |
Yard: | West Yard, South Shields |
Yard Number: | 442 |
Dimensions: | 4202grt, 2667nrt, 370.2 x 51.6 x 25.0ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (26, 42 & 69 x 48ins), 386nhp |
Engines by: | John Readhead & Sons Ltd, South Shields |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 9.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 133219 |
History: | |
13/07/1914 | Hain Steamship Co Ltd (E Hain & Son), St Ives |
1933 | JD McLaren & Co (Shipping) Ltd, AA Callergis & NG Revelis, Piraeus |
1933 | Renamed SYLVA |
1937 | Ch N Pateras & Co, Piraeus; renamed VICTORIA |
30/10/1940 | Sank |
Comments: | 30/10/1940: Bombed, torpedoed & sunk by German aircraft, 200 miles NW of Galway |
On a voyage from Durban to Belfast with a cargo of sugar |
Above photo as TREWELLARD is copyright of the K Ingram Collection
Newcastle Journal - Friday 29 May 1914