Name: | MIRA |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 07/02/1901 |
Completed: | 05/1901 |
Builder: | CS Swan & Hunter Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 259 |
Dimensions: | 3767grt, 2297nrt, 344.5 x 46.0 x 31.0ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (23.5, 39 & 66 x 48ins), 302nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 112844 |
History: | |
05/1901 | English & American Shipping Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co Ltd), London |
1904 | WA Gilchrist, New York; renamed BEAUMONT |
1906 | Merida SS Co (FR Gilchrist), New York; renamed JOSEPH W FORDNEY |
1915 | JW Elwell & Co, Cleveland |
1917 | A/S D/S Gustav Vigeland (O Ørvig), Bergen; renamed GUSTAV VIGELAND |
1920 | Olaf Ørvig’s Rederi |
07/07/1923 | Sank |
Comments: | 06/07/1923: Wrecked 10nm west of Ona Lighthouse, Norway |
On a voyage from Spitsbergen to Bergen with a cargo of coal | |
07/07/1923: Towed off, but then sank |
Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 08/02/901