ABBEVILLE

Built 1914
Tonnages 1337 grt, 719 nrt
Dimensions 238.4 x 36.1 x 14.1 ft
Shipbuilder (yard number) Wood, Skinner & Co., Newcastle (188)
Engine builder George Clark Ltd., Sunderland
Engine T3cyl (18.5, 30, 50 x 33in), 176nhp
O.N. 128884
Owners 1914 Goole & West Riding S.S. Co. (H. W. Ezard) as EDWIN HUNTER
  08/1914 detained by Germany at Nordenham
  08/1916 Imperial German Navy as a collier
  12/1918 returned to owners
  1918 Yorkshire Coal & Steam Shipping Co. Ltd., Goole
  1919 renamed ABBEVILLE
  1926 Yorkshire Dale S.S. Co., Hull and renamed WHARFEDALE
  1927 Neville Shipping Co., Cardiff and renamed NEVILLE
  1933 Constants (South Wales) Ltd., Cardiff and renamed IGHTHAM
  04/09/1940 beached in Derbyhaven Bay after a collision on voyage Cardiff for Oporto, sold as a constructive total loss
  1941 Hull Gates Shipping Co., Hull
Fate 07/10/1942 mined and sank in pos. 53.32N 00.45E, voyage London to Sunderland on ballast

Seen below as EDWIN HUNTER, photo re-labelled


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