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Name: MYSTIC
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 06/12/1900
Completed: 01/1901
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 258
Dimensions: 3793grt, 2432nrt, 351.0 x 46.1 x 27.7ft
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: 112799
History:
19/01/1901 English & American Shipping Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co Ltd), London
1915 N Embiricos Sons, Andros; renamed KANARIS
06/01/1918 Sank
Comments: 06/01/1918: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U93 in the Bay of Biscay
On a voyage from Barry to Bordeaux


Above photo as KANARIS is courtesy of La Société Archéologie Maritime du Morbihan

Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 07/12/1900