CUXHAVEN

Built 1882
Tonnages 950grt, 410 nrt
Dimensions 220.0 x 32.0 x 13.7 ft
Shipbuilder (yard number) W. B. Thompson & Co., Dundee
Engine builder W. B. Thompson & Co., Dundee
Engine C2cyl (30, 60 x 33in), 163nhp
O.N. 67836
Owners 1882 Yorkshire Coal & Steam Shipping Co., Goole
  1895 Goole Steam Shipping Company, Goole
  1905 Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company, Goole
  1911 Giuseppe Sfilio, Palermo and later Palermo owners, renamed TORERO
Fate 01/11/1916 captured and scuttled by U.21 when 6 miles off Capo Gallo near Ustica.

 

Also depicted in this painting by James Bullass of Reedness (b. 1862)

and dated in 1885, by kind permission of Stan Threadgould


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