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From: "Provost, Gilbert" <>
Subject: [Mar] S.S. BALLATER - 1917
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:40:53 -0500

To Mick Chambers: I have, accidentally, deleted your e-mail, thus losing
your e-mail address. So I am posting to the list, hoping you will see it.
Here are the details for the vessel from the 1916-17 Lloyd's Register:

BALLATER, ex. BLAIRMORE
Code letters: NMQROfficial Number: 102167
Master: Captain P.D. Mildred, appointed to the vessel in 1914
Rigging: steel single screw Schooner; 1 iron deck; 2 tiers of beams & deep
framing; 5 cemented bulkheads;
cellular double bottom, aft 92 feet, under engine & boilers 42
feet, forward 122 feet, 459 tons;
Forward Peak Tank 38 tons; Aft Peak Tank 36 tons
Tonnage: 2,286 tons gross, 2,098 under deck and 1,456 net
Dimensions: 313 feet long, 38.2 foot beam and holds 22.4 feet deep; Bridge
Deck 82 feet; Forecastle 37 feet
Construction: 1894, Harland & Wolff Ltd. in Belfast, under the 3-deck rule
Propulsion: triple expansion engine with 3 cylinders of 23, 38 & 62 inches
diameter respectively; stroke 42 inches;
operating at 160 p.s.i.; 245 nominal horsepower; 2 single
ended boilers; 6 ribbed furnaces;
grate surface 124 sq. ft.; heating surface 3,600 sq. ft.;
engine built by Muir & Houston in Glasgow
Owners: Underwood Shipping Co. Ltd. (Monroe, Rutherford & Co., managers)
Port of registry: Liverpool

In the Lloyd's War Losses for WWI:

Nov. 21, 1915
BALLATER - British Flag - 2,286 tons gross
Damaged by a mine, between No. 3 & No. 5 buoys South Edinburg Channel
>From Valencia for London with a cargo of fruit

Sept. 22, 1917
BALLATER - British Flag - 2,286 tons gross
Sunk by submarine, 7 1/2 miles East of Berry Head
>From Castro Urdiafles (Sept. 10) for Tees with iron ore.

Best wishes for the Holiday Seasons.

Gilbert Provost
http://www.webruler.com/gprovos

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