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Name: WATERFORD
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 20/02/1912
Completed: 04/1912
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 880
Dimensions: 1204grt, 500nrt, 275.2 x 38.2 x 16.5ft
Engines: 2 x Q4cyl (16, 23, 33 & 48 x 33ins), 438nhp
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 15.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 132697
History:
11/04/1912 Great Western Railway Company, London
1924 Cia Maritima (Fernandez Hermanos), Manila; renamed PANAY
30/12/1941 Sank
Comments: Built for the Fishguard to Waterford service as a cattle and cargo vessel
Also accommodation for 28 x passengers in 1st Class facilities
30/12/1941: Bombed & sunk by Japanese aircraft in Campomanes Bay, Negros, Philippines


Shields Daily News, Thursday, 18/04/1912