TIP | Titanic Related Ships | Candidate | Harrison Line

Candidate

 
Harrison Line
 


Image of ss Candidate (Harrison Line)



Length: 398 ft.
Breadth: 51 ft.
Draft (or Depth): 26 ft.
Tonnage: 5,858 (gross); 3,826 (net)
Engines:
Speed:
Builder: Chas. Connell & Co., Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland
Launched:
Maiden Voyage:
Disposition: .
Particulars:








Port of Registry:
Flag of Registry: British
Funnel color:
Company flag:
Signal Letters:
Wireless call letters:
Details: Single funnel, four masts


 

Relationship to Lusitania disaster / inquiry.

Vessel shelled by U-20, the same boat that would torpedo and sink the Lusitania. This news was not passed on to Lusitania.


Data:

May 6, 1915

Shelled and sunk by U-20, 20 miles SE of Conninbeg Light vessel, Waterford, Ireland; 0 lives lost. U-20 would torpedo and sink the Lusitania the following day.

 


Image Courtesy: Old Ship Photo Galleries (http://www.photoship.co.uk) Used with permission