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Name: WHITEFIELD
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 24/11/1890
Completed: 01/1891
Builder: John Readhead & Sons
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 266
Dimensions: 2422grt, 1560nrt, 290.0 x 40.0 x 19.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 37.5 & 61.5 x 39ins), 243nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 98500
History:
01/1891 Maclean, Doughty & Co, West Hartlepool
1900 W Maclean & Co, West Hartlepool
1914 Maclean Shipping Co Ltd, West Hartlepool
1915 E James, West Hartlepool
01/09/1915 Sank
Comments: 01/09/1915: Sank after being captured and shelled by U-Boat U33 when
95 miles N by W of Cape Wrath on a voyage from Arkhangelsk to the
Clyde and Nice with a cargo of wheat