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Name: LORCA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 22/09/1930
Completed: 12/01/1931
Builder: J Readhead & Sons Ltd
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 504
Dimensions: 4875grt, 3007nrt, 393.4 x 53.8 x 26.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (25, 42 & 69 x 48ins), 427nhp
Engines by: J Readhead & Sons Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 162525
History:
12/01/1931 Cory & Strick (Steamers) Ltd (FC Strick & Co), London
1943 United British Shipping (Haldin & Phillipps)
1943 Maritime Shipping & Trading (Michalinos & Co), London
1946 Renamed LORADORE
13/08/1955 Wrecked
Comments: 13/08/1955: Wrecked on Bird Rocks, Magdalen Island, Gulf of St Lawrence
On a voyage from Sydney, Nova Scotia to Montreal with a cargo of coal


Above photo as LORCA courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as LORCA courtesy of Clive Ketley

Above photo as LORADORE courtesy of George Robinson