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Name: OVERSTONE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 05/02/1924
Completed: 02/1924
Builder: Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number: 384
Dimensions: 3940grt, 2387nrt, 380.3 x 51.9 x 23.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (25, 41 & 68 x 48ins), 381nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 145739
History:
25/02/1924 C Radcliffe, Cardiff
1927 Turnbull Scott Shiping Co Ltd (Turnbull, Scott & Co, managers), London
1927 Renamed SALTERSGATE
09/06/1944 Sank
Comments: 09/06/1944: Scuttled as part of Gooseberry No3 at Normandy


Above photo as SALTERSGATE is courtesy of Clive Ketley