ESKWOOD

Built 1911
Type Cargo Ship
Tonnages 791 grt, 370 nrt
Dimensions 195.0 x 30.0 x 11.6 ft
Shipbuilder (yard number) W. Harkess & Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough (189)
Engine builder Blair & Co., Stockton-on-Tees
Engine T3cyl (16, 27, 44 x 30in), 131 nhp
O.N. 128813
Owners 1911 Meteor S.S. Co. Ltd. (Constantine & Donking), Middlesbrough
  1918 E. Johnson & Co. Ltd., Goole
  1926 S. & R. Steamships Ltd. (Stone & Rolfe Ltd.), Swansea
  1937 Mersey Ports Stevedoring Co. Ltd., Liverpool
1944 Grand Union (Shipping), London
  09/03/1945 captured by a German raiding party at Granville and taken to St. Helier, Jersey
  05/1945 recovered and returned to owners
  1946 renamed KILWORTH
  1950 Fenchurch Shipping Co. Ltd. (Geo. A. Tom & Co. Ltd.), London
  1951 renamed FENCHURCH
  1951 Holderness S.S. Co. Ltd., Hull; renamed HOLDERNOLL
   
Fate 20/01/1959 arrived at Gateshead for breaking by J. J. King & Co.

 

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