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Name: CAIRNDHU
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 16/05/1885
Completed: 1885
Builder: HS Edwards & Sons
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number: 23
Dimensions: 1304grt, 822nrt, 231.0 x 34.6 x 17.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (18.5, 30 & 48 x 36ins), 138nhp
Engines by: Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Reg Number: 91489
History:
1885 T Cairns, Newcastle
1888 Cairns & Young, Newcastle
1891 Cairns, Young & Noble, Newcastle
1904 Cairns, Noble & Co, Newcastle
1911 O Banck, Helsingborg; renamed ORSA
15/01/1920 Wrecked
Comments: 15/01/1920: Wrecked at Hallands Vadero
On a voyage from Malmo to Halmstad in ballast


Above photo as ORSA copyright of J Robert Bomans