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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| WOODCOCK |
121346 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1906 |
10/04/1906 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| John Brown & Co Ltd., Clydebank |
Clydebank |
372 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 1619 grt / 688 nrt / |
270.4 ft |
36.1 ft |
16.6 ft |
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| Engine builder |
John Brown & Co Ltd., Clydebank |
| Engine detail |
| T3cyl, 460nhp, 1 screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| G. & J. Burns Ltd, Glasgow |
Glasgow |
02/07/1906 |
| Other names |
| 1914 WOODNUT - 1920 WOODCOCK - 1928 LAIRDSWOOD - 1931 LOCHNAGAR - 1946 RENA - 1951 BLUESTAR |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
06/1922 Burns & Laird Lines, Glasgow
10/1930 Aberdeen Steam Navigation Co. Ltd, Aberdeen
08/1946 Rena Cia de Nav SA (P.Protopapas), Panama
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| Vessel history |
1914 requisitioned by Admiralty as an Armed Boarding Vessel and as a Fleet Messenger.
1915 renamed HMS WOODNUT to avoid confusion with General Steam Nav Co's Woodcock.
1929 reverted to WOODCOCK.
1940-1945 engaged in evacuation from Norway and sailings to Shetlands and Iceland. |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1952 |
Broken Up 26/04/1952 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Broken up at La Spezia, arrived on above date. |
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Lochnagar
Image courtesy of :
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Image courtesy of : Burns & Laird Lines Ltd
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Image courtesy of : Burns & Laird Lines Ltd
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