Name: | WAR GRANGE |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 16/10/1917 |
Completed: | 12/1917 |
Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 925 |
Dimensions: | 3100grt, 1853nrt, 331.0 x 46.7 x 23.1ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (25, 41 & 68 x 45ins), 430nhp |
Engines by: | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.5knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 140450 |
History: | |
22/12/1917 | The Shipping Controller (Steel, Young & Co), London |
1919 | Edoardo Mazza, Savona; renamed GIGLIO |
1927 | Soc di Navigazione Unione Italica, Rome |
05/04/1928 | Wrecked |
Comments: | 15/05/1918: Torpedoed & damaged by U-Boat U55, 7 miles N of Towan Head, Newquay |
Deliberately beached on Towan Beach just outside Newquay to avoid danger of sinking | |
On a voyage from Bordeaux to Cardiff in ballast. Five members of the crew died | |
05/04/1928: Wrecked on Les Boeufs Rocks off Noirmoutier in the outer Loire estuary | |
On a voyage from Sfax to Basse Indre with a cargo of phopsphates |
Above photo showing WAR GRANGE aground at Newquay in 1918 is courtesy of Photoship