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Name: SAM LANCASTER
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 20/08/1890
Completed: 09/1890
Builder: T & W Smith
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 103
Dimensions: 541grt, 296nrt, 168.5 x 25.2 x 13.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (13.5, 22 & 36 x 24ins), 70nhp
Engines by: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 98402
History:
09/1890 Lancaster, Speir & Co, Cardiff
1894 Trustees Industrial & Investment Corporation Ltd (JP Eeles), Cardiff
1897 Robert Thomson, London; renamed GRANGEMUIR
21/05/1899 Wrecked
Comments: 21/05/1899: Wrecked in the Baie de Fourches near Conquet
On a voyage from Newport to Hennebont with a cargo of coal