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Variag: Lendalfoot, Firth Of Clyde
Cruiser (20th Century)
Site Name Variag: Lendalfoot, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Cruiser (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Varyag; Varaig; Soya; Lendalfoot Bay; Outer Clyde Estuary; Varaig (Ex. Varaig, Soya)
Canmore ID 113280
Site Number NX19SW 8004
NGR NX 1273 9171
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Maritime - South Ayrshire
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NX19SW 8004 1273 9171
N55 11.05 W4 56.5
NLO: Lendalfoot [name: NX 131 900].
For loss of the associated tug Ludgate, see NX74SW 8005.
For associated memorial (NX c. 1358 9103), see NX19SW 18.
(Classified as cruiser: former names cited as Varaig [Variag] and Soya, and date of loss as 5 February 1920). Varaig [Variag?]: this vessel stranded and was wrecked while under tow to the breakers.
Registration: Russian. Built 1899. 6600 tons displacement. Length: 130m. Beam: 16m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 11.05 W4 56.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):
A3221 1 porthole (possibly from Variag): from seabed.
NMRS, MS/829/35.
Variag (ex-Soya, ex-Variag). (October 1899).
416ft [126.8m] x 52ft [15.9m] x 21ft [6.4m] maximum draught.
Armament: 2x12 pdr.
Armour: 3ins deck: 6ins CT [control tower].
Machinery: 2 sets 4-cylinder inverted triple expansion.
Designed horsepower: 20,000 = 23 kts.
Coal: normal 770 tons, maximum 1300 tons.
[Attributed to 'White Sea' and listed among 'Russian Cruisers (non-effective)'. This vessel was sunk at Chemulpo (Korea) in February 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War. She was salved in August 1905, repaired by the Japanese and renamed Soya, being retroceded to Russia in March 1916. She was dismantled at Liverpool in 1917.
[F] [Jane] 2001.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 2929
Name : VARAIG (EX. VARAIG, SOYA)
Latitude : 551103
Longitude : 45630
Date Built : 1899
Registration : RUSSIAN
Type : CRUISER
Tonnage : 6600
Tonnage Code : D
Length : 130
Beam : 16
Draught : 6m
Position : Exact Position
Loss Day : 5
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1920
Comment : Stranded and wrecked whilst on tow to breakers.
