Name: | WAR SPARROW |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 19/09/1918 |
Completed: | 11/1918 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 883 |
Dimensions: | 5238grt, 3217nrt, 399.3 x 52.2 x 28.5ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (27, 44 & 73 x 48ins), 517nhp |
Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 142720 |
History: | |
26/11/1918 | The Shipping Controller (Charlton, McAllum & Co Ltd), London |
1919 | Bank Line Ltd (A Weir & Co), Glasgow; renamed HALERIC |
05/04/1933 | Sank |
Comments: | 04/04/1933: Struck a reef off Paternoster Point near Saldanha Bay |
05/04/1933: Sank 64 miles south west of Cape Town | |
On a voyage from the Tyne to Port Natal in ballast |
Above photo as HALERIC is copyright of Walter E Frost - City of Vancouver Archives
Above photo as HALERIC is courtesy of Photoship