Name: | WILLIAM STORRS also seen as WM STORRS |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 02/02/1893 |
Completed: | 03/1893 |
Builder: | Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company |
Yard: | Willington Quay |
Yard Number: | 98 |
Dimensions: | 3623grt, 2324nrt, 335.0 x 43.0 x 22.6ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (24, 40 & 65 x 42ins), 289nhp |
Engines by: | Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron & Steel |
Reg Number: | 101823 |
History: | |
03/1893 | Red “R” Steamship Co Ltd (Stephens & Mawson), Newcastle |
1901 | Managers became Stephens, Sutton & Stephens |
1906 | Bombay & Persia Steam Navigation Co Ltd, Bombay; renamed ALVI |
13/10/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | 13/10/1917: Shelled & sunk by U-Boat U35, 6 miles NE of Cape Palos |
On a voyage from Genoa to Carthagena in ballast |
Above photo as WILLIAM STORRS courtesy of Clive Ketley