Ribera (II) 1915 np

Ribera 1915

3511 tons

104.5 LLP x 14.9m

1xTriple expansion engine

Wm Gray & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool

Yard No 853

F.Bolton & Co went into voluntary liquidation on 12th Sep 1917 due to the retirement of the senior partner Louis T. Bartholomew, to be later resurrected in 1921

1917 sold to Humphries (Cardiff), Ltd., London and renamed Glorose


June 10th 1917 torpedoed and sunk by the U 61 German submarine (Capt. (Victor Dieckmann) 70 miles north of Cape Wrath whilst en-route from Penarth to Archangel  in the White Sea with a cargo of coal.

No lives were lost..

Master A. Smith.