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Name: SARDINIA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 09/07/1914
Completed: 09/1914
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 189
Dimensions: 1500grt, 749nrt, 285.2 x 38.7 x 16.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (21, 34 & 56 x 36ins), 188nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
09/1914 D/S A/S Otto Thoresens Linie (Otto Thoresen), Christiania
23/01/1917 Sank
Comments: 23/01/1917: Captured & scuttled by U-Boat U59, 140 miles SW of Brest
On a voyage from Teneriffe to London with a cargo of fruit


Newcastle Journal, Friday, 10/07/1914