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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| LORNASTON |
148881 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1925 |
22/10/1925 |
12/1925 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo General
| Steel Screw Steamer 2 Masts |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Robert Duncan & Co, Port Glasgow |
East Yard |
367 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 5934 grt / 3072 nrt / |
407.0 ft |
53.5 ft |
25.7 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Rankin & Blackmore, Greenock |
| Engine detail |
| 1-screw, T3cyl (26, 42, 70 x 48in), 457nhp, 10 knots |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| W. S. Miller & Co., Glasgow |
Glasgow |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1940 Lornaston S.S. Co. Ltd. - same managers
1941 Galbraith, Pembroke & Co. Ltd., London |
| Vessel history |
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1945 |
Torpedoed 08/03/1945 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Torpedoed and sunk by U.275 north west of Fecamp, 50.35N - 00.30W while in convoy, Blyth-Casablanca with coal. All of her crew and gunners were saved by frigate HMS Holmes and the tug HMS Palencia and landed at Newhaven. |
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Lornaston - Old Ship Picture Galleries
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Lornaston - Old Ship Picture Galleries
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