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Name: SIMOOM
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 10/08/1880
Completed: 1880
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 398
Dimensions: 2089grt, 1350nrt, 285.8 x 36.1 x 24.3ft
Engines: C2cyl (34 & 66 x 42ins), 235nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 81388
History:
1880 Bedouin Steam Navigation Co Ltd (W & R Thomson), Liverpool
1889 African SS Co Ltd (Elder, Dempster & Co), London; renamed EBOE
1897 Dr A Bing & E Korpeles (Schenker, Walford & Co), Trieste
1897 Renamed LAURA
21/11/1897 Wrecked
Comments: 21/11/1897: Wrecked 4 miles south of Filey on a voyage from
Newcastle to Trieste with a cargo of coal and coke.


Above photos as LAURA copyright of the Filey Museum