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Birnam

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1895 Birnam Maclean, Doughty & Co.
1900 Birnam H. Doughty & Co.
1901 Birnam Doughty Shipping Co. Ltd.
1907 Voltaire Soc Gen de Houilles & Agglomeres
1912 Voltaire Delmas Bros.

Fate

On a voyage from Algiers to Nantes Voltaire was torpedoed by German submarine & sank 140 miles NE of Cape Ortegal in the Bay of Biscay on 11 January 1918.

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