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Name: IMBER
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 10/02/1914
Completed: 03/1914
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 926
Dimensions: 2154grt, 1186nrt, 300.0 x 40.0 x 20.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (27.5, 37 & 62 x 42ins), 370nhp
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 135716
History:
06/03/1914 Cork Steam Ship Co Ltd, Cork
1922 British & Continental Steamship Co Ltd, Liverpool
1934 Ing A Angeloni, Genoa; renamed CITTA DI BERGAMO
14/03/1943 Sank
Comments: 14/03/1943: Torpedoed & sunk by HMS UNBENDING,
when 3 miles east of Cape Spartivento, Calabria
On a voyage from Crotone to Messina
Subsequently refloated and broken up


Newcastle Journal, Wednesday, 11/02/1914