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Swansea

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1887 Swansea Baltimore Storage & Lighterage Co. Ltd.
1888 Maine Williams, Torrey & Feild
1898 Maine Atlantic Transport Co.
1901 Maine Admiralty

Fate

Maine had been subscribed for by the women of America & was presented to the Nation by the Atlantic Transport Co during the Boer War as a naval hospital ship. She ran aground & was wrecked in thick fog at Firth of Lorne, Mull on 17 June 1914.

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