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Name: BANGARTH
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 23/03/1895
Completed: 04/1895
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 699
Dimensions: 1565grt, 938nrt, 250.8 x 36.3 x 18.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (20, 33 & 54 x 36ins), 191nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 105288
History:
04/1895 Rea Steamship Co Ltd (R & JH Rea), Liverpool
1906 A/S D/S Scot (Kampmann, Møller & Herskind), Aarhus; renamed SCOT
1913 Managers became Kampmann & Herskind
23/04/1917 Sank
Comments: 23/04/1917: Captured and sunk by gunfire and explosives by U-Boat
UC44 when 12 miles E by N of St Abb’s Head at 56.02N – 01.46W
On a voyage from Copenhagen to Burntisland in ballast


Above photo as SCOT copyright of the Bangsbo Museum

Above photo as SCOT is courtesy of the Museet for Sofart

Above photo as SCOT is courtesy of the Museet for Sofart

Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 25/03/1895