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BEOTHIC, Sealing Ship, built in 1918 by the American Shipbuilding Company at Lorain, Ohio, as the LAKE COMO. Name changed when bought by Bowring Brothers, Ltd., of Liverpool and St. Johns, Newfoundland. Ship's particulars: Gross tonnage 1825; net 1078 tons. Length 262' 5". Beam 43' 7". Depth 18' 4". She was strengthened for navigation in ice. Renamed BEOTHIC after a tribe of North American Indians when taken over by Bowrings. Her long run of sealing voyages came to an end in 1940 when she was wrecked off the Newfoundland coast.

E W Argyle Log Book April 1972

Newfoundland SG232.