FURNESS, WITHY & COMPANY LTD, MIDDLETON, HARTLEPOOL

Name CHICAGO
Type Passenger/Cargo Ship
Yard Number 232
Launched 07/05/1898
Completed 10/1898
Off. Number 109069
Engine builder Central Marine Engineering Works, West Hartlepool
Engine type T. 3cyl. 842NHP
GRT 6438
Length (feet) 475.5
Beam (feet) 52.2
First owner T. Wilson, Sons & Company Ltd., Hull
History 1898 Wilsons & Furness-Leyland Line Ltd., Hull
  1904 renamed ETONIAN
1915 Fred. Leyland & Co. Ltd., Liverpool
   
Fate 23/03/1918 torpedoed probably by U.61 when 34nm SxE of Old Head of Kinsale on passage Liverpool for Boston Mass.

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