Category:Virginia Lake (ship, 1888)

Ship[edit]

• Type: Passenger / cargo composite steamship
• Built by: Archibald McMillan & Son, Dumbarton
• Yard No: 283
• Launched: 1888.03.10
• Completed: 1888
• Length over all: 180.3 ft
• Beam: 30.0 ft
• GT: 760
• www.clydeships.co.uk
• www.bac-lac.gc.ca
• www.bac-lac.gc.ca
• mha.mun.ca
• wrecksite.eu

History[edit]

• 1888 Named Conscript; Flag: United Kingdom
  • Official number: 95049
  • Port: Glasgow
  • Owner: Adolphus J Harvey (A Harvey & Co), St John's, Newfoundland
• 1892 Renamed Virginia Lake; Flag: Canada
  • Port: St. John's, Newfoundland
• 1902 Owner: Reid Newfoundland Co, St John's
  • Call sign: LDTP
  • Owner: Joh. Boele BV in Rotterdam
• 1909.04.06 Abandoned in Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland, in ice floe, later set on fire