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TROUTPOOL

Post by shipstamps » Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:43 pm


Built under yard no 401 as a cargo vessel with a trunk deck by Ropner & Son, Stockton, U.K. for the Pool Shipping Co Ltd. (R. Ropner & Co.), West Hartlepool.
21 October 1903 launched under the name TROUTPOOL.
Tonnage 3.281 grt, 2.110 net, dim. 325.0 x 48.0 x 22.9ft.
One triple expansion 3-cyl steam engine, manufactured by Blair & Co., Stockton., 302 nhp., speed 11.5 knots.
November 1903 delivered to owners.

On a voyage from Las Palmas to St John’s New Foundland in ballast she drove hard up onto the rocks at Diamant Point, St Pierre et Miquelon, in the evening of 30 September 1923. (She was a little of course)
Her forward section was so high and dry the crew was able to escape by descending a pilot ladder. Not any hope to salvage her, and with the first storm the stern of the steamer torn away.

Source: Ropner Shipping Company 1874-1974. Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1903.
Ship Wreck at St Pierre by J.P.Andrieux

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