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Name: LUX
Type: Tanker
Launched: 09/10/1888
Completed: 10/1888
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 526
Dimensions: 1635grt, 1255nrt, 250.0 x 35.1 x 24.1ft
Engines: T3cyl (18.5, 30 & 48 x 33ins), 150nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 95482
History:
10/1888 HF Swan (W Dickinson & Co), London
1891 JM Lennard & Sons, Middlesbrough
02/11/1891 Sank
Comments: 02/11/1891: Burned out & sank off Negropont
On a voyage from Batoum to Antwerp with a cargo of petroleum


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