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Kirtle

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1883 Kirtle G. Steel
1889 Kirtle Steel Young & Co.
1894 Kirtle Glasgow Navigation Co. Ltd.
1900 Baltique Giani & Muller

Fate

Outward bound from Antwerp for Seaham Harbour with a cargo of silvers and & a crew of 16, during a heavy storm, Baltique anchored for shelter at the mouth of the Escaut in Flushing Roads where she sank after being rammed by the Belgian Red Star liner Finland on 25 December 1910. Six lives were lost.

 

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