EQUITY

Built 1888
Tonnages 931 grt, 413 nrt
Dimensions 247.4 x 32.4 x 11.4 ft
Shipbuilder (yard number) Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering, Hull (311)
Engine builder Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering, Hull
Engine T3cyl (24, 39, 64 x 33in), 258nhp
O.N. 91317
Owners 1888 Co-operative Wholesale Society, Goole
  1906 Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company, Goole
 

08/1914 detained at Hamburg, served as a German Army Transport disguised as OLAF, ADOLPH ARDESSEN and MIRA

  02/1918 returned to owners
  1920 survived a wrecking on Alderney, see note below
  1922 London & North-Western Railway Company, Goole
  1923 London, Midland & Scottish Railway Company, Goole
   
Fate 12/1931 broken up at Grangemouth

Survived a wrecking on Alderney in 1920, further details .....

"27 May 1920 steamer EQUITY of Goole, Jersey for Hull with cargo of potatoes, went ashore on south side of Essex Hill Signal Station.  Submerged from break of focsl aft and cargo washing out - feared to be total loss.
31 May salvage steamer RANGER arrived.  Potato cargo totally ruined and lost.
15 June EQUITY refloated by salvage steamer RANGER and towed into Alderney harbour following day
19 June towed to Southampton."
 

 

below, from collection of Stan Threadgould

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