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Name: LINARES
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 07/06/1883
Completed: 07/1883
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 500
Dimensions: 1646grt, 1065nrt, 265.6 x 36.3 x 17.5ft
Engines: C2cyl (32 & 60 x 39ins), 197nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 88731
History:
06/07/1883 Scott Brothers, Newcastle
1904 Scott Bros Ltd (Lt Col DE Barker-Jervis), Newcastle
1905 Hanson, Brown & Co Ltd, Middlesbrough; renamed LION
1910 Lion Steamship Co Ltd (Hanson, Brown & Co Ltd), Middlesbrough
1912 A/S Bravore (Lundegaard & Stray), Farsund; renamed BRAVORE
09/06/1917 Sank
Comments: 09/06/1917: Captured, shelled & sunk by U-Boat U72, 70 miles SW of Planier Island
On a voyage from Hull to Porto Empedocle with a cargo of coal


Above photo as LINARES is copyright of the Norsk Maritimt Museum

Above photo as LION is courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as BRAVORE is courtesy of Photoship

Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 08/06/1883