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Name: GLENMAVIS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 18/06/1881
Completed: 07/1881
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 445
Dimensions: 2114grt, 1385nrt, 286.4 x 37.2 x 23.1ft
Engines: C2cyl (36 & 68 x 45ins), 260nhp; (1891: T3cyl (28.5, 36 & 68 x 45ins), 258nhp)
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow;
(1891: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 84924
History:
26/07/1881 Lindsay, Gracie & Co, Leith
1884 Glenmavis SS Co Ltd (Lindsay, Gracie & Co), Leith
1898 GE Broms, Stockholm; renamed ANNA
1899 Rederi A/B Lulea-Ofoten (ER Boman), Stockholm
1903 Manager became P Tham
1906 Angfartygs A/B Trio (CL Larsson), Gothenburg
22/11/1908 Sank
Comments: 1891: Engine tripled
22/11/1908: Sank after stranding near Janaholmen, Jaeltefjorden
On a voyage from Narvik to Middlesbrough with a cargo of iron ore


Above photo as GLENMAVIS is courtesy of the Bernt Fogelberg collection

Above photo as ANNA is courtesy of the Bernt Fogelberg collection

Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 20/06/1881