FURNESS, WITHY & COMPANY LTD, MIDDLETON, HARTLEPOOL

Name POWHATAN (launched as AUSTRIANA)
Type Cargo Ship
Yard Number 251
Launched 27/08/1900
Completed 12/1900
Off. Number 112428
Engine builder Furness, Westgarth & Company, Middlesbrough
Engine type T. 3cyl. 380NHP
GRT 4262
Length (feet) 354.1
Beam (feet) 50.2
First owner British Maritime Trust Ltd., West Hartlepool
History 1902 Chesapeake & Ohio Steam Shipping Company, West Hartlepool
  1910 Furness, Withy & Company Ltd., West Hartlepool
  1912 SENJU MARU, Tatsuuma Shokai Goshi Kaisha, Dairen
   
Fate 19/11/1915 presumed torpedoed by U.33 about 36N/16E, ESE of Malta after sailing from Oran on passage from Philadelphia to Vladivostok with a cargo of railway materials.

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