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Name: BLACKTOFT
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 23/03/2010
Completed: 05/1910
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 163
Dimensions: 1109grt, 654nrt, 225.2 x 36.2 x 14.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (18.5, 30 & 50 x 33ins), 169nhp
Engines by: George Clark Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 128873
History:
04/05/1910 Wetherall Steamship Co Ltd (JH Wetherall), Goole
1917 JH Wetherall & Co Ltd, Goole
1935 Toft Steamship Co Ltd (TH Donking & Sons Ltd), Middlesbrough
22/02/1945 Sank
Comments: 22/02/1945: Torpedoed & sunk by a German MTB, 25 miles NE of Great Yarmouth
On a voyage from Goole to Caen with a cargo of pitch


Above photo is courtesy of Richard Cox