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Loss
Date 5 October 1918
Event ID 585916
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/585916
(Photographs, location map, transits and drawings of armament reproduced).
S Blackburn 1986.
(Classified as armed merchant cruiser of steel construction, carrying army stores: date of loss cited as 5 October 1918). Otranto: this vessel drifted ashore in Machair [Machir] Bay after being in collision (Kashmir). Capt. Davidson.
Registration: London. Built 1909. 12124grt. Length: 160m. Beam: 20m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 45.77 W6 28.67).
I G Whittaker 1998.
