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Name: WATHFIELD
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 25/10/1904
Completed: 01/1905
Builder: John Readhead & Sons
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 381
Dimensions: 3012grt, 1944nrt, 322.0 x 47.6 x 23.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 40 & 65 x 45ins), 293nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 119863
History:
01/1905 Doughty Shipping Co Ltd (H Doughty & Co), West Hartlepool
21/02/1917 Sank
Comments: 21/02/1917: Sank after being torpedoed by U-Boat U39 when 15 miles
North of Cape Carbon on a voyage from Limni to Malta with magnesite.


Above photo courtesy of Clive Ketley