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Birnam - a general history

Completed February 1896: Official No. 102740: Code Letters LKTB.

Owners: February 1896 Maclean, Doughty & Co, West Hartlepool; 1900 Henry Doughty & Co. West Hartlepool; 1901 Doughty Shipping Co. Ltd. West Hartlepool; 1907 Soc Generale de Houilles & Agglomeres, Nantes, France–renamed Voltaire; 1912 Houilles & Agglomeres merged with Delmas Freres, La Rochelle, France

Masters: 1896-1903 J Boyle; 1906 W Hopkins; 1909 J LaGae.

Bound from Algiers for Nantes Voltaire was torpedoed by an unidentified German submarine & sank 140 miles NE of Cape Ortegal in the Bay of Biscay on 11 January 1918. Ten lives were lost

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