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Name: SURREY
Type: Passenger Refrigerated Cargo Ship
Launched: 08/07/1899
Completed: 09/09/1899
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 370
Dimensions: 5455grt, 3498nrt, 420.4 x 54.0 x 28.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (30, 48 & 78 x 54ins), 505nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 110184
History:
09/09/1899 Federal Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London
1915 Brodfield SS Co Ltd, London; renamed BRODFIELD
13/11/1916 Wrecked
Comments: 13/11/1916: Wrecked on Blue Carn, St Mary's, Scilly
On a voyage from Le Havre to the River Plate in ballast


Photo copyright of Allan Green

Shields Daily Gazette, Saturday, 10/06/1899