BRANTINGHAM

Built 1897
Type Cargo Ship
Tonnages 2617 grt, 1685 nrt
Length / beam / draft 313.0 x 44.2 x 20.6 ft
Shipbuilder (yard number)

Robert Thompson & Sons, Sunderland (199)

Engine Builder G. Clark Ltd., Sunderland
Engine T3cyl (22, 36, 60 x 42in), 251 nhp
O.N. 104218
Owners 1897 East Yorkshire S.S. Co. Ltd. (A. Meek & Sons), Goole
  1910 Brantingham S.S. Co. Ltd. (T. Pratt & Co.), Newcastle
  1914 James Cormack & Co., Leith
   
Fate 04/10/1916 torpedoed by U46 in the Arctic about 70 miles N.N.E. of Vardo, on a voyage Archangel for Leith with pit props. 24 crew inc. master lost in lifeboats.

Photo from collection of Clive Ketley

From the collection of Stan Threadgould

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