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Name: MIRA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 07/02/1901
Completed: 05/1901
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 259
Dimensions: 3767grt, 2297nrt, 344.5 x 46.0 x 31.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (23.5, 39 & 66 x 48ins), 302nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 112844
History:
05/1901 English & American Shipping Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co Ltd), London
1904 WA Gilchrist, New York; renamed BEAUMONT
1906 Merida SS Co (FR Gilchrist), New York; renamed JOSEPH W FORDNEY
1915 JW Elwell & Co, Cleveland
1917 A/S D/S Gustav Vigeland (O Ørvig), Bergen; renamed GUSTAV VIGELAND
1920 Olaf Ørvig’s Rederi
07/07/1923 Sank
Comments: 06/07/1923: Wrecked 10nm west of Ona Lighthouse, Norway
On a voyage from Spitsbergen to Bergen with a cargo of coal
07/07/1923: Towed off, but then sank


Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 08/02/901