SS Aeon (1905)

History
United Kingdom
NameAeon
OwnerHoward Smith & Company, Melbourne, Australia
Port of registryLondon
BuilderNorthumberland Shipbuilding Company, Howdon-on-Tyne[1]
Launched20 April 1905
Completed1905
FateWrecked 18 July 1908
General characteristics
Length109.8 metres (360 ft)
Beam14.6 metres (48 ft)
Depth6.6 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)". tynebuiltships.com. Retrieved 6 March 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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