Name: | WOOLLOOMOOLOO |
Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 26/05/1891 |
Completed: | 08/07/1891 |
Builder: | Wigham Richardson & Co |
Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 262 |
Dimensions: | 3521grt, 2221nrt, 5030dwt, 360.0 x 44.4 x 26.0ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (28, 45 & 73 x 54ins), 445nhp |
Engines by: | Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 12.8knots (trials) |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 98954 |
History: | |
08/07/1891 | W Lund, London (Blue Anchor Line) |
1901 | Houston Line, Liverpool, renamed HARMONIDES |
1919 | ‘K’ Steamship Co (Kaye & Sons, managers), renamed KHARTUM |
1927 | Broken up |
Comments: | Contract Price £57079; Profit £7158-2s-4d |
1894: Fitted with 53,000 cu ft of refrigerated spaces to provide | |
an alternative cargo when the wool freight rates were low | |
1899: Chartered to the French CGT line for five round voyages (3rd Class only) | |
between Le Havre, Bordeaux and New York | |
05/03/1902: Rammed & sank the Red Star liner WAESLAND off Anglesey in fog | |
WAESLAND was the former Cunard ship RUSSIA. 53 x passengers rescued | |
2Q/1927: Broken up at Genoa by A Ardito |
Above photo as WOOLLOOMOOLOO is copyright of FC Gould
Shields Daily Gazette, Wednesday, 27/05/1891