KNOTTINGLEY

Built 1907
Type Cargo Ship
Tonnages 833 grt, 414 nrt
Dimensions 195.0 x 32.3 x 11.4 ft
Shipbuilder (yard number) Joseph Crown & Sons Ltd., Sunderland (125)
Engine builder North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co. Ltd., Sunderland
Engine T3cyl (15.75, 25.2, 45 x 33in), 99 nhp
O.N. 122960
Owners 1907 Wetherall S.S. Co. Ltd. (J. H. Wetherall), Goole
  1916 Cambo Shipping Co. (Morgan & Cadogan Ltd.), Cardiff
  1922 J. & A. Davidson Ltd., Aberdeen
  1923 Antwerp Shipping & Bunkering Co. (P. Corneli), Antwerp; renamed BRABO
  1926 Brabo Steamship Co. Ltd. (Frank T. Armitage), Goole / Grimsby; renamed LULONGA
  1927 Hook S.S. Co. Ltd. (Goole & Hull Steam Towing Co. Ltd.), Goole
Fate

26/07/1940 sunk by E-boat when 15 miles south of Shoreham, on passage Goole to Shoreham in ballast. One of her thirteen crew was lost.

From the collection of Stan Threadgould

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