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Name: WAR GRANGE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 16/10/1917
Completed: 12/1917
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 925
Dimensions: 3100grt, 1853nrt, 331.0 x 46.7 x 23.1ft
Engines: T3cyl (25, 41 & 68 x 45ins), 430nhp
Engines by: Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 140450
History:
22/12/1917 The Shipping Controller (Steel, Young & Co), London
1919 Edoardo Mazza, Savona; renamed GIGLIO
1927 Soc di Navigazione Unione Italica, Rome
05/04/1928 Wrecked
Comments: 15/05/1918: Torpedoed & damaged by U-Boat U55, 7 miles N of Towan Head, Newquay
Deliberately beached on Towan Beach just outside Newquay to avoid danger of sinking
On a voyage from Bordeaux to Cardiff in ballast. Five members of the crew died
05/04/1928: Wrecked on Les Boeufs Rocks off Noirmoutier in the outer Loire estuary
On a voyage from Sfax to Basse Indre with a cargo of phopsphates


Above photo showing WAR GRANGE aground at Newquay in 1918 is courtesy of Photoship