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Name: BARMOOR
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 20/07/1909
Completed: 08/1909
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 160
Dimensions: 2225grt, 1317nrt, 295.3 x 40.5 x 18.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (21, 34 & 56 x 36ins), 223nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 129731
History:
27/08/1909 Burnett Steamship Co Ltd (Burnett & Co), Newcastle
1923 Westwick Steamship Co Ltd (James Westoll), Sunderland
1936 Usaldusühing Jakobsen ja Ko (C Strubin & Co, Lonson), Pärnu
1938 Renamed LAKE LUCERNE
1939 Manager A Truuberg
1940 Estonian Steam Shipping Co, Tallinn
28/08/1941 Sank
Comments: 06/1940: Seized by USSR in the Baltic, expropriated 10/1940
28/08/1941: Bombed & sunk by German aircraft off Hogland in the Gulf of Finland
On a voyage from Tallinn to Kronstadt


Above photo by Gustav Trautman is courtesy of Ellis Trautman