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Name: GLEN DOCHART
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 15/08/1882
Completed: 10/1882
Builder: Schlesinger, Davis & Co
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 126
Dimensions: 1206grt, 744nrt, 236.0 x 32.2 x 18.1ft
Engines: C2cyl (28 & 53 x 36ins), 140nhp
Engines by: Hawks, Crawshay & Son, Gateshead
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 86988
History:
12/10/1882 T McNabb, London
1885 McNabb, Eccles & Co, London
1887 H Baxter & Co, London
1895 Crosby, Magee & Co, London
1901 Sunderland Steamship Co Ltd (JL Browne), London
1902 A/S Lyra (CT Gogstad & Co), Christiania; renamed LYRA
25/12/1914 Wrecked
Comments: 25/12/1914: Wrecked on Flateguri between Hankö and Ranö
On a voyage from the Tyne to Christiania with a cargo of coal


Above photo as LYRA is courtesy of the Digitalt Museum

Above photo as LYRA is courtesy of Joachim Larsen