ELVIER

Built 1919
Type Cargo Ship
Tonnages 730 grt, 333 nrt
Dimensions 181.7 x 28.4 x 12.0 ft
Shipbuilder (yard number) Gebr. Jonker, Kinderdijk (408)
Engine builder Machfabrk. Bolnes, Bolnes
Engine T3cyl (15, 25, 40 x 27in), 83 nhp
O.N. 146337
Owners 1919 Lloyd Royal Belge S.A., Antwerp
  1922 Somerton Greaves, Goole (she was registered at Goole from 02/1922 ex foreign to 09/1930 when transferred to Newcastle register)
  1926 Iona Shipping Co. Ltd (Jos. H. Cubitt & Co.), Newcastle
  1931 Isak Clemmetson, Newcastle
  1934 Cullercoats Shipping Co. Ltd., Newcastle
  1935 D/S A/S Skottland (F. N. Nordbo), Haugesund; renamed SKOTTLAND
   
Fate

01/01/1938 struck the bar and sank 2 miles off Cabo Major on a voyage from Requejada to Tonnay Charente with zinc ore

ELVIER sailing from Treport c.1929, collection of Ray Arnold

Postcard, collection of David Asprey

 

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