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Name: GLENMAVIS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 18/06/1881
Completed: 07/1881
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 445
Dimensions: 2114grt, 1385nrt, 286.4 x 37.2 x 23.1ft
Engines: C2cyl (36 & 68 x 45ins), 260nhp; (1891: T3cyl (28.5, 36 & 68 x 45ins), 258nhp)
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow;
(1891: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 84924
History:
26/07/1881 Lindsay, Gracie & Co, Leith
1884 Glenmavis SS Co Ltd (Lindsay, Gracie & Co), Leith
1898 GE Broms, Stockholm; renamed ANNA
1899 Rederi A/B Lulea-Ofoten (ER Boman), Stockholm
1903 Manager became P Tham
1906 Angfartygs A/B Trio (CL Larsson), Gothenburg
22/11/1908 Sank
Comments: 1891: Engine tripled
22/11/1908: Sank after stranding near Janaholmen, Jaeltefjorden
On a voyage from Narvik to Middlesbrough with a cargo of iron ore


Above photo as GLENMAVIS is courtesy of Bernt Fogelberg

Above photo as ANNA is copyright of Bernt Fogelberg

Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 20/06/1881