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general
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nationality:
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british
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purpose:
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transport
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type:
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cargo
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subtype/class:
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collier
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propulsion:
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steamer
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date built:
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1894
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details
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weight (tons):
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1443
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dimensions:
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75,29 x 10,76 x 4,75 m
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engine:
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Steam triple expansion by N.E.M.E. Co. Ltd. Sunderland, one single boiler, single screw
An animation of a simplified triple-expansion engine.
High-pressure steam (red) enters from the boiler and passes through the engine, exhausting as low-pressure steam (blue) to the condenser.
The Yarrow boiler, an example of a 3-drum water tube boiler..
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power:
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148
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speed:
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8.5
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about the loss
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cause lost:
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torpedo
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date lost:
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30/03/1917 [dd/mm/yyyy]
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casualties:
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15
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about people
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about the wreck
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depth:
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war grave:
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updates
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entered by:
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Allen Tony
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entered:
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26/08/2007
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last update:
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Lettens Jan
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last update:
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15/07/2010
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Pictures
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| | | |  | |  Lettens Jan25/04/2010River Tees to ScarboroughThis is a thumbnail version of the chart River Tees to Scarborough. You do not have sufficient rights to see this chart in full resolution [11572x7675 pixels]. Click this link to subscribe to this service. | |  Racey Carl09/12/2009Austin's Pontoonopened in 1904, the pontoon was a platform that could be sunk below a ship, then re-floated to raise the ship out of the water. | |  Racey Carl09/12/2009Winter 1955The yard of Austin seen here in the grip of winter. Austin's normally had better conditions at launch time. For twenty years every launch took part in fine weather | | | | | |  | |  | | | | | | | |
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History
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Racey Carl15/04/2009Built for J. & C. Harrison, London; Yard No 185; Launch Date: 16/06/1894; Date of loss not certain, probably struck a mine laid by UC.31; All 15 lives lost, including master.
The HARBERTON left Blyth on Thursday 29th March 1917 bound for London with a cargo of coal. The ship was never seen or heard of again and it is presumed to have struck a mine laid by a German U-boat with the loss of all 15 crew.
Estimated position of loss: Off Robin Hood´s Bay; North Sea, Shipping Lane South of Blyth.
One of ten Cory Colliers involved in the London coal trade, lost off the Yorkshire coast to German U-boats or mines they had laid during WWI, the others were: Brentwood, Hurstwood, Ocean, Vernon, Sir Francis, Harrow, Corsham and Highgate. The Deptford was also mined off Scarborough in 1915.
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Allen Tony02/03/2009The collier Harberton SS left Blyth on March 29th, 1917, for London, with a cargo of coal. She was mined in the North Sea by German submarine UC-31 and sunk. She had a crew of 16.
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Allen Tony26/08/2007Harberton SS was a 1,443grt, British Merchant steamer. On the30th March 1917 when in the North Sea she was probably torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, date uncertain, listed as 30th?. 15 lives lost including Master. Vessel was on route from Blyth to London.
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