York

Ownership

1907 - 1937 Wilsons & North Eastern Railway Shipping Co. Ltd., Hull
(1915 - 1919 Admiralty requisition)

Capacity

12 x 1st class when built, later cargo only

Routes

Hull to Continental ports

Shipbuilder

Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Dundee (yard no. 192)
Launched 18/03/1907 Completed 04/1907

Dimensions

GRT: 1132grt

Length: 255.7ft

Beam: 36.2ft.

Engine builder

Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Dundee

Propulsion

Steam triple expansion 23.5, 38 & 62 x 39ins., 240hp

Notes

Requisitioned by the Admiralty 01/1915 - 04/1919 and commissioned as an Armed Boarding Steamer.
Under Associated Humber Lines management from 1935.
1937 to French owners and renamed VILLE DE BOUGIE, she survived an attack by Allied forces at Algiers on 08/11/1942.
Broken up at La Seyne where she arrived on 21/01/1956.

Acknowledgments

Compiled by George Robinson.