FURNESS, WITHY & COMPANY LTD, MIDDLETON, HARTLEPOOL

Name EMPRESS
Type Cargo Ship
Yard Number 196
Launched 03/01/1893
Completed 02/1893
Off. Number 98536
Engine builder T. Richardson and Sons, Middleton, Hartlepool
Engine type T. 3cyl. 249HP
GRT 2918
Length (feet) 314.0
Beam (feet) 40.4
First owner Imperial S.S. Co. Ltd. (Sivewright, Bacon & Co.), West Hartlepool
History 1901 CADIZ, Aznar y Cia., Bilbao
1902 Cia. Vasco Gaditana (J. E. Gomez), Cadiz
1904 EMPRESS, Ogmore S.S. Co. (1899) Ltd. (G. Chitham), Cardiff
1911 Amaryllis Shipping Co. Ltd. (W. Coupland & Co.), Cardiff
   
Fate 31/07/1917 sunk by mine when 4 miles E by S of Withernsea LH on passage Tyne for Southend (for orders) with coal.

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