Name: | LOOCH also seen as LOUTSCH & LUCH |
Type: | Tanker |
Launched: | 28/10/1886 |
Completed: | 12/1886 |
Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 267 |
Dimensions: | 1446grt, 914nrt, 255.5 x 34.2 x 17.9ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (20, 32 & 53 x 36ins), 175nhp |
Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a; (1922: 137750) |
History: | |
12/1886 | Russian Steam Navigation & Trading Co, Odessa |
1907 | AI Merkuliev, Odessa |
1911 | SS Co "Ocean" Ltd, Odessa |
1920 | British Baku Trading & Shipping Co Ltd, London; renamed LADY ELINOR |
1922 | Chernomorsk-Azov Shipping, Odessa; renamed CHAUMIAN (SHAUMYAN) |
1924 | A/O Sovtorgflot, Odessa |
1934 | Hulked |
Comments: | 1886: Designed with engine aft |
08/1922: Seized by Georgia at Batoum and handed to Russian Federal government | |
1934: Struck rocks near Tuapse & towed to Tuapse | |
1934: Hulked as a stationary school at Tuapse | |
1937: Stricken from USSR Marine Register as sold for scrap & engine removed | |
1938: Hulk remained at Tuapse but unused | |
195x: Broken up |
Above photo as CHAUMIAN (SHAUMYAN) is courtesy of the Lemachko BV collection
Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 29/10/1886