Name

SILKSWORTH

Type

Cargo

Yard Number

670

Launched

11/02/1922

Completed

04/1922

Off. Number

145485

Engine builder

Blair & Co. Ltd., Stockton-on-Tees

Engine type

T 3 cyl.

GRT

4921

Length (feet)

415.2

Beam (feet)

53.3

First owner

Dalgliesh Steam Shipping Co. Ltd. (R. S. Dalgliesh), Newcastle

History

1935 Worth S.S. Co. Ltd. (same managers)

1936 Foreign Investments Ltd., Shanghai (Yamashita Kisen K.K., Kobe)

Fate

06/04/1942 sunk by a Japanese warship off Puri in the Bay of Bengal, on passage Calcutta for Vizagapatam and Aden with coal.