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Loss
Date 8 September 1939
Event ID 628707
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/628707
(Classified as steel steamship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 8 September 1939). Cape Ortegal: this vessel was sunk as a blockship in Skerry Sound, but rolled over and broke up in a gale.
Registration: Glasgow. Built 1911. 4896grt. Length: 123m. Beam: 16m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 52.83 W2 53.83).
I G Whittaker 1998.
