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Name: LUCY ANDERSEN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 29/02/1904
Completed: 04/1904
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 117
Dimensions: 1052grt, 637nrt, 220.3 x 35.0 x 14.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (17, 28 & 46 x 33ins), 133nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1916: 139269)
History:
04/1904 Nielsen, Andersen & Co, Newcastle
04/1904 A/S D/S Lucy Andersen (H Svarrer), Copenhagen
1916 Roberts & Cooper Ltd (Chas Graham & Co), Hull
12/03/1917 Sank
Comments: 04/1904: Sold before registering at Newcastle
12/03/1917: Captured, shelled & sunk by U-Boat UC44, 55 miles off Wick
On voyage from Hartlepool to Gothenburg with a cargo of coal


Above photo courtesy of George Robinson

Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 04/03/1904

Shields Daily News, Tuesday, 05/04/1904