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Name: LOCHSIDE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 18/07/1905
Completed: 08/1905
Builder: Smith's Dock Co Ltd
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 773
Dimensions: 242grt, 105nrt, 120.6 x 21.6 x 9.2ft
Engines: C2cyl (16 & 34 x 22ins), 50nhp
Engines by: Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 122827
History:
08/1905 James Deuchar, Newcastle
1925 C Rowbotham & Sons, Newcastle; renamed HELMSMAN
10/1927 Missing
Comments: 1925: Fitted with tanks for petroleum by Clelands at Wallsend
27/10/1927: Sailed from the Medway for Stockton-on-Tees with petroleum
Subsequently posted missing
2014: Probable wreck located by divers 18nm SE of Bridligton.


Above photos as HELMSMAN, alongside at Preston, courtesy of Photoship