SPARTA
Built | 1900 |
GRT /NRT | 708 / 388 |
Length / beam / draft | 185.4 x 29.2 x 11.8 ft |
Shipbuilder (yard number) | Taylor & Mitchell Greenock (3) |
Engines / engine builder | T3cyl (15, 25, 40 x 27in), 82nhp by McKie & Baxter, Glasgow |
Owners | Built for John White, London as GRESHAM, sold after one month to New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd., London as PETONE |
1903 Blackball Coal Co. Ltd., London (operating in New Zealand) | |
1910 Canterbury Steam Shipping Co. Ltd., Lyttleton | |
1916 Robert Todhunter & John Montgomery, Lyttleton | |
1916 Cunningham, Shaw & Co., London | |
1917 Petone Steam Shipping Co. Ltd., London / Cardiff | |
1920 Zenith Steam Shipping Co. Ltd. (Loane, Williams & Co.), London / Cardiff | |
Ashore east of Fecamp on 8 October 1921 while on a voyage from Blyth to Rouen with coal, refloated next day and sold the following day 10 Oct.1921 to Bennett and renamed SPARTA |
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Assisted with evacuation of troops from Brest to Falmouth on 17 June 1940. | |
Fate |
Sunk by mine on 10 March 1941 in position 50.55N 00.35E, 10 miles off Dungeness while on a voyage from Blyth to Southampton with coal. Nine of her crew were lost. |
Seen below as PETONE