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UMBILO

Post by shipstamps » Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:02 am


Built as a cargo vessel under yard No. 379 by W. Gray & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool for Bullard, King & Co., London. (Natal Direct Line.)
Launched under the name UMBILO.
Tonnage 1.923 grt, dim. 270.4 x 37.5 x 16.2ft.
One triple expansion steam engine 232 nhp., speed 10 knots.
March 1890 delivered to owners.

Used in the Natal Direct Line from the U.K., the ships did not stop in Cape Town.
1909 Sold to the Ellermans Line Ltd., (F. Swift, mgrs.), London. Renamed in CASTILIAN.

She was torpedoed by a submarine and sunk on 18 April 1917 in a position 110 miles N.W. by N. of Tory Island.
Ten of the crew lost their life; the Captain was among the survivors.

Source: Register of Merchant ships completed in 1890. Dictionary of disasters at sea during the age of steam 1824-1962 by Charles Hocking.

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