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Name: LOWLAND FIRTH
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 06/01/1921
Completed: 03/1921
Builder: Hepples (1919) Ltd
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 658
Dimensions: 351grt, 139nrt, 135.0 x 23.3 x 9.7ft
Engines: C2cyl (17 & 31 x 24ins), 65rhp
Engines by: Hepples (1919) Ltd, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 144244
History:
03/1921 Border Shipping Co Ltd, Glasgow
1929 Cement Marketing Co Ltd, Glasgow; renamed SNOWCRETE
1936 FT Everard & Sons Ltd, Glasgow
1937 John Kennedy & Sons, Glasgow
1947 Challis, Stern & Co Ltd, Glasgow; renamed WARREN GROVE
09/11/1948 Sank
Comments: 09/11/1948: Foundered 30 miles W of Dundee, in position 56.40N - 2.05W
On a voyage from Hartlepool to Buckie with a cargo of coal