Name: | WALKER |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 05/02/1890 |
Completed: | 03/1890 |
Builder: | Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Bill Quay |
Yard Number: | 20 |
Dimensions: | 606grt, 383nrt, 185.5 x 30.0 x 11.9ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (16, 26 & 43 x 30ins) 90nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 98055 |
History: | |
03/1890 | Lambert Brothers, London |
1896 | W Cory & Son Ltd, London |
1903 | Channel Dry Docks & Engineering Co Ltd |
1905 | N Kanazawa, Hamadera; renamed KAIUN MARU |
1917 | K Yamada, Tarumi |
1921 | Kamade Shohi KK, Tarumi |
1923 | Iino Kisen KK, Tokyo |
1935 | Marusyo Kaiun KK, Ura; renamed NISSYO MARU NO 6 |
23/07/1945 | Sank |
Comments: | 11/07/1922: On fire and scuttled at Kobe, raised and rebuilt |
23/07/1945: Sank after being mined off Shimonoseki. |