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Name: SARAH
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 05/1882
Completed: 05/1882
Builder: J Readhead & Co
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 181
Dimensions: 1422grt, 819nrt, 248.8 x 36.1 x 17.5ft
Engines: C2cyl (29 & 54 x 36ins), 135nhp
Engines by: J Readhead & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 82679
History:
05/1882 Robert Harrowing, Whitby
1897 Gaelic Steamships Ltd (Cairns Young Noble); renamed CAIRNALT
1904 Managers became Cairns, Noble & Co
1912 Cairn Line of Steamships Ltd (Cairns, Noble & Co, managers)
1915 Rederi A/B Fylgia (W Damstrom), Helsingfors; renamed HERA
1923 Rederi A/B Hera (MT Sjoblom, manager), Norrtelje, Sweden
1928 Managers became GA Lundberg, Norrtelje, Sweden
1935 Managers became Albert Jansson, Mariehamn, Finland
12/09/1942 Sank
Comments: 12/09/1942: Torpedoed & sunk by Soviet Submarine S13
in the Gulf of Bothnia, 70 miles NE of Uppsala


Photo as CAIRNALT courtesy of Richard Cox

Above photo as HERA copyright of Erik Holmberg collection

Above photo as HERA copyright of Erik Holmberg collection

Above photo as HERA copyright of Karl Ransell

Above photo as HERA copyright of Robert Boman collection