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Ada (1906) - a general history

Completed July 1906; Official No. 119896: Code Letters HGRD.

Owners: 1906 Seaton Shipping Co (JS Allison & Co) West Hartlepool: 1911 Seaton Shipping Co (Sydney Hogg & Co) West Hartlepool: 1917 Neotsfield Ship Co Ltd (J Bell & Co) Hull-renamed Neotsfield.

Masters: 1906-10 JH Williams: 1911-16 Mann: 1917-18 EA Porter.

Newcastle Journal, Saturday, November 3rd, 1917:
WEST HARTLEPOOL STEAMER SOLD. The spar-deck steamer Ada, 3,821 tons gross, 2,488 tons net, carries about 6,500 tons deadweight, built by Messrs. Furness, Withy and Co., West Hartlepool, in 1906, S.S. No.2 in 1914, with engines by Messrs. Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., and owned by the Seaton Shipping Company Ltd., (Messrs. Sydney Hogg and Co.), has been sold to the Neotsfield Ship Company Ltd., (Messrs. James Bell and Co., managers), for about £75,000.

Bound from the Clyde for Naples with a cargo of coal & fitted with 4” stern gun Neotsfield was torpedoed by German submarine (UB-64 Otto von Schrader) & sank in the Irish Sea 1 mile south of Skulmartin lighthouse on 14 September 1918. No lives lost.

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