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Name: DALEGARTH
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 29/05/1889
Completed: 06/1889
Builder: John Readhead & Sons
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 249
Dimensions: 2206grt, 1434nrt, 290.0 x 39.0 x 18.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (22, 36 & 60 x 39ins), 286nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 96146
History:
06/1889 Clapham Steam Ship Co Ltd (GE Macarthy), Newcastle
1914 Hanson Brown & Co (Newcastle-on-Tyne) Ltd, Newcastle
1915 City of London Shipping & Trading Co Ltd, Newcastle
30/05/1916 Sank
Comments: 30/05/1916: Captured, torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U39
when 12 miles NE of Cape Corbelin, Algeria
On a voyage from Limni to Glasgow with a cargo of magnesite.