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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