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Name: KNARWATER
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 20/08/1883
Completed: 1883
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 459
Dimensions: 1655grt, 1047nrt, 260.3 x 35.1 x 18.2ft
Engines: C2cyl (32 & 60 x 39ins), 171nhp
Engines by: Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 88746
History:
1883 W Dickinson & Co, Newcastle
1899 John Hopper, Newcastle
1910 A/S John Christie (W Holby), Christiania
1915 A/S Carolvore (Lundegaard & Stray), Farsund; renamed CAROLVORE
31/07/1917 Sank
Comments: 31/07/1917: Sank after being captured and shelled by U-Boat U39 when
4 miles off Roches Point in the Gulf of Cadiz on a voyage from Valencia
to London with a cargo of fruit


Above photo courtesy of Ralph Lundberg