RICHARDSON, DUCK & COMPANY, THORNABY

Name SLEDMERE
Type Cargo steamship
Yard Number 382
Launched 24/01/1891
Completed 02/1891
Off. Number 98723
Engine builder Blair & Co., Stockton-on-Tees
Engine type T 3 cyl.
GRT 1970
Length (feet) 270
Beam (feet) 36.7
First owner G. R. Sanderson & Co., Hull.
   
History 1893 East Riding Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. (G. R. Sanderson & Co.), Hull
  1899 BILLIO, J. L. Vatis. & Co., Syra.
  1912 N. D. Lykiardopoulo, Syra
  1915 NICOLAOS, C. Goudis & Co., Syra
  1916 A/S Steam (C. B. Nielsen), Skien
  1917 renamed NORDSTRAND
  1917 The Shipping Controller (W. A. Massey & Son), London
   
Fate 18/03/1918 ran aground on Whitby rocks while on passage Tyne to Rouen with coal, but sank 0.75 miles N.E. of Whitby piers. Crew of 26 saved by Whitby lifeboat. (NB Lifeboat records show this took place on 25/03/1918)

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