SS Aeon (1905)

History
United Kingdom
Name: Aeon
Owner: Howard Smith & Company, Melbourne, Australia
Port of registry: London
Builder: Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, Howdon-on-Tyne[1]
Completed: 1905
Fate: Wrecked 18 July 1908
General characteristics
Length: 109.8 metres (360 ft)
Beam: 14.6 metres (48 ft)
Depth: 6.6 metres (22 ft)

Aeon was a 4,221-ton steamship built by Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, Howdon-on-Tyne for Howard Smith and Company, Melbourne in 1905.[2]

Fate

Aeon was wrecked on 18 July 1908 near Christmas Island (now Kiritimati), while on a voyage from San Francisco to Sydney.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ "SS Aeon (1905)". www.tynebuiltships.com. Retrieved 6 Mar 2017.
  2. ↑ "New Steamship Aeon, Examiner (Launceston, Tas), Thursday 21 September 1905, p.4". Retrieved 1 March 2012.
  3. ↑ "The Aeon a Hopeless Wreck, The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 9 October 1908, p.8". Retrieved 1 March 2012.
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