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Ashfield - a general history

Ashfield 1897-1916

Built by Ropner & Son, Stockton-on-Tees: Yard No. 344: launched 1 April 1897 completed May 1897: Official No. 106963: Code Letters PQWF: steel screw steamer; 2320g; 1471nt; 300 x 43 x 19.5; engine 226nhp; T.3.Cy 20½, 35 & 59½-39 200lb 80lb; Blair, Stockton-on-Tees.

Owners: 1897 T Appleby & Co, West Hartlepool; 1910 Greatham Steam Shipping Co Ltd (T Appleby & Co) West Hartlepool; 1913 Emile Lofgren, Gefle-renamed Vera; 1915 JP Jonsson, Landskrona.

Masters: 1897-98 A Steele; 1899-1902 SR Strickland; 1903-04 HMD Wyatt; 1906-09 JS Smith.

On a voyage from Neport, Monmouthshire for Naples with a cargo of coal Vera struck a mine laid by German Submarine (U-35 Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere) & sank 45 miles SSW of Isola di Caroli on 5 October 1916. No lives lost.

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