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