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Name: HORDEN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 21/06/1906
Completed: 08/1906
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 135
Dimensions: 1434grt, 909nrt, 245.5 x 36.7 x 16.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (19, 31 & 51 x 36ins), 171nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 122849
History:
08/1906 Burnett Steamship Co Ltd, Newcastle
20/09/1915 Sank
Comments: 20/09/1915: Sank after striking a mine 0.5 miles E of Aldbrough Napes Buoy
Mine laid by U-Boat UC6 on 13/08/1915
On a voyage from London to Hartlepool in ballast