Darlington

Darlington (c. G.Robinson)

Ownership

1910 - 1935 Wilsons & North Eastern Railway Shipping Co. Ltd., Hull

Capacity

15 x 1st class when built, reduced to 12 in 1919

Routes

Hull to Continental ports

Shipbuilder

Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull (yard no. 567)
Launched 05/07/1910 Completed 08/1910

Dimensions

GRT: 1076grt

Engine builder

Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull

Propulsion

Steam triple expansion 23.5, 38 & 62 x 39ins., 373hp

Notes

Sold in October 1935 to Ellerman's Wilson Line, Hull and renamed CASTRO, later names 1937 STANROCK, 1937 LYDIA, 1938 ILONA, 1939 SONA and under this last name bombed and sunk by German air attack in Adamos Bay, Milos in April 1941

Acknowledgments

Compiled by George Robinson.