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Name: LOCH LOMOND
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 16/03/1888
Completed: 05/1888
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 590
Dimensions: 2619grt, 1680nrt, 312.0 x 40.2 x 24.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 37 & 60 x 42ins), 236nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 93472
History:
01/05/1888 Dundee Loch Line Steam Shipping Co Ltd (A Leitch & Co), Dundee
1907 Lomond Shipping Co Ltd (W Coupland & Co), Dundee
1919 Transport & Trading Co Ltd (JW Thompson), London
1919 Renamed CITY OF SMYRNA
1921 Franco-British Steamship Co Ltd (Olivier & Co), Dundee
1922 Broken up
Comments: 21/01/1922: Sustained bottom damage while leaving Blyth
On a voyage from Blyth to Alexandria with a cargo of coal
24/01/1922: Put into Hull leaking badly and examined by divers
07/1922: Humber Graving Dock, Immingham, claimed payment for damage repairs
Owners Franco-British Steamship Co Ltd is in liquidation
09/1922: Reported as sold for £2,000, probably for breaking up
1922: British Registry closed