FURNESS SHIPBUILDING COMPANY LTD., HAVERTON HILL

Name APPOMATTOX (laid down as EGYPTIANA, originally intended as SARDINIAN PRINCE)
Type Cargo 
Yard Number 26
Launched 04/10/1921 
Completed 07/1922
Off. Number 145959
Engine builder Richardson, Westgarth & Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough
Engine type T 3-cyl
GRT 3491g
Length (feet) 363.3
Beam (feet) 52.2
First owner Furness, Withy & Co. Ltd., Liverpool
History 1924 SARDINIAN PRINCE, Rio Cape Line Ltd. (Furness, Withy & Co. Ltd.), London
   
Fate 16/03/1941 shelled and sunk by German battleship SCHARNHORST near Cape Race, Newfoundland (43.46N 44.00W) on passage Manchester for Philadelphia

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