Kinmount 1

1908                                  Kinmount     1                                  1915 (1918)

Steel St. Lawrence River canal size bulk freighter

Built at Dumbarton Scotland
Launched

257’6” LOA, 249’ LBP, 43’ beam, 25’ depth
1 deck, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 950 IHP

Enrolled at Glasgow Scotland
249.0 x 43.0 x 21.8, 2112 GT, 1598 NT     Br 128218     to:
Montreal Transportation Co., Montreal P.Q. (home port Glasgow Scotland)

Entered service 1908

Enrollment transferred to Canada 1912     Can 128218     (home port to Montreal QC)

Sold 1915 for off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes

Renamed Finistere (France) 1916

Lost June 11, 1918 off Bristol Channel, southwest England, probably as a result of enemy action.

 

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