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Name: KAMOURASKA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 27/07/1911
Completed: 09/1911
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 830
Dimensions: 4903grt, 2673nrt, 375.0 x 52.0 x 28.1ft
Engines: T3cyl (26, 44 & 73 x 48ins), 479nhp
Engines by: George Clark Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 131384
History:
25/09/1911 Sydney, Cape Breton & Montreal Steamship Co Ltd (EF & W Roberts), Liverpool
1915 Laurentian Steamship Co Ltd (Edmund Roberts & Co), Liverpool
1920 Kamouraska Shipping Co Ltd (AL Hamilton), Halifax NS
1927 Managers became Dominion Shipping Co Ltd
1931 Ropner Shipping Co Ltd, West Hartlepool; renamed COALBY
1936 St Quentin Shipping Co Ltd (B & S Shipping Co Ltd), Cardiff
1937 Townsend Brothers (Shipping) Ltd
08/08/1937 Broken up
Comments: 1937: Sold to Townsend Brothers for resale to shipbreakers
under the British 'Scrap and Build' scheme
08/08/1937: Arrived at Wakamatsu for breaking up at Osaka