ROPNER & SON., STOCKTON-ON-TEES

Name ELWICK
Type Cargo
Yard Number 265
Launched 05/10/1891
Completed 11/1891
Off. Number 98519
Engine builder Blair & Co., Stockton-on-Tees
Engine type T. 3 cyl.
GRT 2434
Length (feet) 290
Beam (feet) 39
First owner T. Appleby & Co., West Hartlepool
History 1904 Elwick S.S. Co. Ltd. (Ballingall & Co.), West Hartlepool
1910 W. Coupland & Co., West Hartlepool
1913 TRECE, Rafael Ferrer, Bilbao
1916 JAIME GIRONA, Altos Hermanos de Vizcaya, Bilbao
Under Republican control in the Civil War
25/03/1937 beached in Santander Bay, refloated 18/05/1940 and repaired
1941 Cia. Valenciana de Cementos Portland, Valencia
1943 renamed R. RIDAURA
Fate 06/1967 broken up at Alicante.

Photo from collection of Harold Appleyard

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