Name: | WINDSORWOOD |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 23/04/1936 |
Completed: | 06/1936 |
Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 601 |
Dimensions: | 5395grt, 3147nrt, 438.9 x 55.8 x 24.8ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (23.5, 38 & 65 x 42ins) + exhaust turbine, 443nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 164828 |
History: | |
09/06/1936 | Constantine Shipping Co Ltd, Middlesbrough |
25/06/1940 | Sank |
Comments: | 25/06/1940: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U51, 470 miles W of Brest |
On a voyage from the Tyne to Sierra Leone with a cargo of coal |
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