Name: | CAIRNMORE |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 25/07/1892 |
Completed: | 09/1892 |
Builder: | Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Bill Quay |
Yard Number: | 40 |
Dimensions: | 1627grt, 1038nrt, 250.5 x 36.1 x 16.8ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (19, 31 & 51 x 36ins), 156nhp |
Engines by: | Black, Hawthorn & Co, Gateshead |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 101803 |
History: | |
09/1892 | Cairn Line of Steamships Ltd (Cairns, Young & Noble), Newcastle |
1904 | Managers Cairns, Noble & Co |
1913 | OM Milberg & Co, Christiania; renamed NORD |
1915 | A/S D/S Nord (KS Nordgreen), Bergen |
1916 | O & H Holta, Skien |
1922 | Rederi A/B Atos (OA Borjesson), Helsingborg |
1927 | Rederi A/B Regulus (JH Pettersson), Helsingborg |
1933 | Rederi A/B Progress (JH Pettersson), Helsingborg |
1937 | Jakob Rang, Tallinn; renamed ARCTURUS |
1940 | Deutsches Reich (Westergaard & Co, Oslo under Norwegian flag) |
22/11/1943 | Sank |
Comments: | 14/04/1940: Seized by German forces at Bergen |
22/11/1943: Sank after being set on fire by a British air attack at Stadtraner and after being taken in tow for Alesund she was torpedoed by Norwegian submarine ULA. | |
She had been on a voyage from Oslo to Northern Norway with potatoes. |
Above photo as NORD is copyright of the Robert Bomans Collection
Above photo as Arcturus is copyright of the Robert Bomans Collection