| 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 | Stephen H Lennard, George T Lawrence & John Ostler, Hull |
| 07/09/1871 | Registered at Hull |
| 09/01/1873 | John Ostler Jnr & John Lumsden, Hull |
| 20/01/1874 | Joseph Monkes, London |
| 19/02/1877 | Rhoda Cobb, London |
| 20/02/1877 | Registered at London |
| by 1883 | Robert 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 |
Greenock Telegraph, Saturday, 18/04/1885