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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| GLENSHIEL |
129423 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1909 |
05/07/1909 |
08/1909 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Charles Connell & Company, Glasgow |
Scotstoun |
328 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 4817 grt / 3054 nrt / |
400.0 ft |
52.0 ft |
26.9 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Dunsmuir & Jackson Ltd., Govan |
| Engine detail |
| 1-screw T.3-cyl. (27”, 43” & 72” x 48”) 513nhp. 10kts. |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Steamship Gairloch Company Ltd., (J. Gardiner & Company, manager), Glasgow. |
Glasgow |
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| Other names |
| 1921 HIGHLAND PRINCE - 1936 ORION |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
14/11/1917 Rio-Cape Line Ltd., (Furness, Withy & Company Ltd., managers).
21/12/1921 Renamed HIGHLAND PRINCE.
1936 P. Lyras, Greece, and renamed ORION.
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| Vessel history |
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1948 |
Wrecked 20/09/1948 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Whilst on a voyage from Sydney, Cape Breton to Botwood with a cargo of coal stranded and then suffered a fire and explosion and wrecked in Strait of Belle Isle. |
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Highland Prince
Image courtesy of : Old Ship Picture Galleries
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Highland Prince
Image courtesy of : Old Ship Picture Galleries
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