Name: | YARROWDALE |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 03/05/1912 |
Completed: | 06/1912 |
Builder: | William Dobson & Co |
Yard: | Walker |
Yard Number: | 178 |
Dimensions: | 4652grt, 2914nrt, 390.2 x 52.0 x 26.6ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (25, 42 & 68 x 48ins), 429nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 11.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 133049 |
History: | |
05/06/1912 | Mackill Steamship Co Ltd (R Mackill & Co), Glasgow |
01/1917 | Imperial German Navy; renamed LEOPARD |
16/03/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | 11/12/1916: Captured by SMS MÖWE, 540 miles SE of Cape Race |
On a voyage from New York to Le Havre | |
09/01/1917: Converted & commissioned in the German Navy as an auxilliary cruiser | |
Armed with 5 x 1 x 150mm & 4 x 1 x 88mm guns, 2 x torpedo tubes | |
16/03/1917: Sunk by HMS ACHILLES & HMS DUNDEE, 300 miles NE of the Faroe Islands |
Above photo as LEOPARD is courtesy of Photoship