Glenfoyle

1913                                  Glenfoyle                                  1915 (1917)

Steel St. Lawrence River canal size bulk freighter

Built at Londonderry Northern Ireland by North of Ireland Shipbuilding Co., Hull 56
Launched

259’ LOA, 250’ LBP, 42’5” beam, 20’ depth
1 deck, arch cargo hold construction, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 750 IHP

Enrolled at Londoderry Northern Ireland
250.0 x 42.5 x 17.4, 1680 GT, 1051 NT     Br 135641     to:
James Richardson & Sons Ltd., (home port Londonderry Northern Ireland)

Entered service 1913

Sold 1915 to Great Lakes Transportation Co., Midland ON

Enrollment transferred to Canada 1916     Can 135641     (home port to Midland ON)

Requisitioned 1916 for off-Lakes service during World War I and left the Great Lakes

Renamed Donlevon 1916 and Stonecrop 1917

Sunk Sept 18, 1917 off Ireland, Atlantic Ocean by German submarine U-43.

See history in Scanner Nov 1984 (#132)

 

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