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Name: TROILUS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 27/12/1913
Completed: 02/1914
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 463
Dimensions: 7562grt, 4814nrt, 455.3 x 56.3 x 32.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (31, 51.5 & 86 x 60ins), 570nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 14.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 135552
History:
20/02/1914 Ocean Steamship Co Ltd (A Holt & Co), Liverpool
18/10/1914 Sank
Comments: 18/10/1914: Captured, shelled & sunk by SMS EMDEN, 170 miles E of Minikoi
On a voyage from Yokohama to London carrying general cargo


Above photo, showing TROILUS receiving her engine at NEM, is copyright of Ian J Farquhar