| History | |
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| Name | 1903–1933: SSEquity |
| Operator |
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| Port of registry |  |
| Builder | Earle's Shipbuilding |
| Launched | 7 July 1888 |
| Out of service | December 1931 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1931 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage |
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| Length |
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| Beam | 32.3 feet (9.8 m) |
| Draught | 13.6 feet (4.1 m) |
SSEquity was a freight vessel built for the Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited in 1888.[1]
She was built byEarle's Shipbuilding[2] for the Co-operative Wholesale Society for their special trade between Hamburg and Goole and launched on 7 July 1888.[3]
On 19 November 1890 she collided with the steamerCuxhaven from Hamburg in the Goole channel. TheCuxhaven received severe damage and was beached to prevent sinking.[4] She grounded on sand at Goole in July 1891, but floated free on the next high tide.[5] In March 1896 the ship fireman, William Costello, was admitted to a charge of smuggling in 61 pounds (28 kg) of compressed tobacco and 14 pounds (6.4 kg) of cavendish, with an estimated duty of £24, 7s 6d. He was remanded for 8 days.[6] She was badly damaged in a collision with the Goole Steam Shipping Company vesselAire on 14 December 1896 in the River Humber.[7]
She was lengthened in 1900 with a revised tonnage of 924, and obtained in 1905 by theLancashire and Yorkshire Railway to be employed on the Goole – Hamburg service. She was captured in Hamburg in 1914 and was returned to her owners in 1918 having spent the war period mainly serving traffic to Finland from Germany. On 25 May 1920 she ran aground infog onAlderney in theChannel Islands carrying a cargo ofpotatoes fromJersey;[8] she was refloated on 15 June 1920.[9] In 1921 whilst on passage from Jersey to Goole on the 'potato trade' she grounded and sank but was later raised.
In 1922 she was taken over by theLondon and North Western Railway, and in 1923 theLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway. On 12 June 1925, she collided with the British steamerRena in theNorth Sea off theWould Lightship and was beached atHorsey, Norfolk.[10] On 16 December 1927 she collided with the British cargo shipEden Force atAntwerp,Belgium;Eden Force was beached,[11] but later was patched and towed toTerneuzen,Zeeland, in theNetherlands.Equity again grounded atAlderney in June 1930, but despite being partially swamped she was salved again. She was eventually scrapped in December 1931 atGreenock,Scotland.[2][12]
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