| Name: | LOUVAIN |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 06/06/1871 |
| Completed: | 09/1871 |
| Builder: | CW Dodgin & Co |
| Yard: | North Shields |
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 255grt, 162nrt, 126.2 x 20.6 x 10.7ft |
| Engines: | C2cyl (15.5 & 29 x 24ins), 40hp |
| Engines by: | JP Almond, North Shields |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 65246 |
| History: | |
| 07/09/1871 | Lennard & Brownlow, Hull; registered at Hull |
| 1874 | J Ostler Jnr, Hull |
| 1875 | J Monkes, London |
| 1877 | Registered at London |
| by 1880 | Rhodes Cobb, London |
| by 1883 | R Mills Jnr, Greenock |
| 17/04/1885 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | 17/04/1885: Struck the bar on the river Adour when inwards |
| Then broke in two in the harbour of Bayonne after coming alongside | |
| On a voyage from Bilbao to Pasages with a cargo of iron ore |