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Loss
Date 16 July 1917
Event ID 560213
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/560213
(Classified as iron steamship, with cargo of herring and wool: date of loss cited as 16 July 1917). Vesta: this vessel was torpedoed off the North coast [of Scotland].
Registration: Copenhagen. Built 1879. 1122 tons [unspecified]. Length: 68m. Beam: 9m.
(Location of loss cited as N59 0.0 W5 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
