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Name: BURTON CONSTABLE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 08/09/1892
Completed: 10/1892
Builder: Edwards Shipbuilding Co Ltd
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number: 62
Dimensions: 1966grt, 1276nrt, 275.5 x 36.7 x 16.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (20.5, 33.5 & 55 x 36ins), 176nhp
Engines by: Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 99589
History:
10/1892 GR Sanderson & Co, Hull
1893 Deddington Steamship Co Ltd (H Samman & Co), Hull; renamed BURTON
1906 Flindt, Drost & Co, Copenhagen; renamed LILIAN DROST
08/05/1915 Sank
Comments: 08/05/1915: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U36 at 56.37N - 03.40E
On a voyage from Blyth to Copenhagen with a cargo of coal & coke


Above photo as BURTON courtesy of Richard Cox

Above image as LILIAN DROST is copyright of the Museet for Sofart