COTTINGHAM

Built 1907
Type Cargo Ship
Tonnages 513 grt
Length / beam / draft 165.0 x 26.0 ft
Shipbuilder (yard number)

Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co., Goole (103)

Engine Builder  
Engine T3cyl
O.N. 122963
Owners 1897 East Yorkshire S.S. Co. Ltd. (A. Meek & Sons), Goole
  1911 Abus S.S. Co. Ltd. (A. Meek & Sons), Goole
  1913 James Little & Co. (Glasgow) Ltd., Glasgow
  1915 J. W. Little, Glasgow / Belfast
  02/07/1915 she was the first British merchant ship to sink a German submarine when she rammed and sank UC2 off Yarmouth
   
Fate 26/12/1915 captured and sunk by submarine gunfire from U24 when 16 miles S.W. of Lundy Island, with the loss of 7 of her crew, on passage Rouen for Swansea in ballast.

From Richard Cox's collection
 

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