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Name: TYNESIDE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 26/07/1883
Completed: 1883
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter
Yard: Wallsend Yard
Yard Number: 75
Dimensions: 875grt, 529nrt, 215.2 x 30.8 x 13.9ft
Engines: C2cyl (27 & 50 x 36ins),120nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 88755
History:
1883 G Reich, Newcastle
1884 James Knott, Newcastle
1886 Renamed WELSH PRINCE
1889 Gerolimich & Co, Lussinpiccolo; renamed QUARNERO
1898 AW Selmer, Drontheim (Trondheim); renamed REBEKKA
1913 Thv Halvorsen, Bergen; renamed JERN
1937 Olav Ostensjo, Haugesund
28/09/1939 Sank
Comments: 28/09/1939: Captured & scuttled by U32, 65 miles west of Skudenes
On a voyage Namsos for London with a cargo of wood pulp


Photo as REBEKKA courtesy of Richard Cox