Name: | TYNEMOUTH |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 16/08/1916 |
Completed: | 01/1917 |
Builder: | Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Bill Quay |
Yard Number: | 197 |
Dimensions: | 2684grt, 1611nrt, 321.2 x 43.2 x 19.5ft |
Engines: | T3cyl, (24, 40 & 65 x 42ins), 329nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.5knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 133590 |
History: | |
12/01/1917 | Burnett Steamship Co Ltd, Newcastle |
1929 | Tredegar Associated Collieries & Shipping Co Ltd, Cardiff |
1929 | Renamed LORD ABERCONWAY |
1931 | Etablissements Odon de Lubersac, Rouen; renamed GALLOIS |
1940 | British Government, London |
06/08/1941 | Wrecked |
Comments: | 06/08/1941: Wrecked on Haisboro' Sands, 18 miles E of Cromer |
On a voyage from the Tyne to London with a cargo of coal |
Above photo as LORD ABERCONWAY is courtesy of Richard Cox
Above photo as GALLOIS is courtesy of Marine-Marchande.net