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Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
ABERDALE |
135580 |
GBR |
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Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
1914 |
02/04/1914 |
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Vessel type |
Vessel description
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Coaster General Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer |
Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
J. Fullerton & Co, Paisley |
Merksworth Works |
232 |
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Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
621 grt / 265 nrt / |
175.0 ft |
28.1 ft |
10.4 ft |
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Engine builder |
Fisher & Company, Paisley |
Engine detail |
T3cyl (14, 24, 40 x 27in), 90rhp, 1 screw |
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First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
George Posatlethwaite, trading as William Postlethwaite and Son, Liverpool |
Liverpool |
13/05/1914 |
Other names |
17/11/1925 OKEHAMPTON - 03/11/1926 YEWBANK - 16/11/1937 DUNGRANGE |
Subsequent owner and registration history |
12/04/1917 Commercial Gas Company, London. 12/10/1925 H. Harrison (Shipping) Ltd., London. 30/09/1926 John Stewart and Co., Glasgow. 05/01/1935 John Stewart and Co. Shipping Ltd., Glasgow. 19/01/1937 John M. Hogg, trading as Buchan and Hogg, Grangemouth. 11/06/1941 Dungrange Steamship Co. Ltd. (Buchan and Hogg, managers), Grangemouth. |
Vessel history |
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Remarks |
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End year |
Fate / Status |
1944 |
Torpedoed 10/06/1944 |
Disposal Detail |
Torpedoed by an E-Boat of German 2nd. S-Flotille south of St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight when outward for the Normandy beaches with ammunition. She was sailing in convoy ETC4W.
12/07/1944 Register closed. |
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