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Name: GLENSTRAE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 21/01/1905
Completed: 03/1905
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 400
Dimensions: 4718grt, 3054nrt, 400.0 x 49.3 x 28.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (28, 46 & 75 x 48ins), 390nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 120503
History:
03/1905 McGregor, Gow & Co, Glasgow
1911 Glen Line (McGregor, Gow & Co), Glasgow
28/07/1917 Sank
Comments: 28/07/1917: Sank after being torpedoed by U-Boat UC62 when 66 miles
SW by S of Bishop Rock on a voyage from Haiphong to Dunkerque