Glenlinnie

1923                                  Glenlinnie                                  1941 (1942)

Steel St. Lawrence River canal size bulk freighter

Built at Wallsend-on-Tyne England by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Hull 1205
Launched

261’ LOA, 250’ LBP, 42’4” beam, 20’6” depth
1 deck, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine,

Enrolled at Newcastle England
252.0 x 42.5 x 18.0, 1904 GT, 1121 NT     Br 145525     to:
Glen Line Ltd., Midland ON (home port Newcastle England)

Entered service 1923

Fleet sold Feb 12, 1925 to George Hall Coal & Shipping Corporation, Montreal QC (home port to Montreal QC)
Enrollment transferred to Canada     Can 145525

Fleet sold March 10, 1926 to Canada Steamship Lines, Montreal QC

Renamed Lennox 1927 (apparently first enrolled in error as Lenox and then corrected)

Requisitioned 1941 for off-Lakes service during World War II and left the Great Lakes

Sunk Feb 23, 1942 by enemy action, Atlantic Ocean

 

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