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Mountain Laurel | Official Number
29918
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The Mountain Laurel was an iron barque built at the Williamson
shipyard at Harrington in 1866. In her early years she was owned by Sprott
& Co. and was registered at Liverpool. In 1895 she was registered at
Sandefjord, Norway, owned by H.C.A.Mitchelson.
On passage from Barrow-in-Furness to Seydisgord (Iceland) with a coal
cargo, the
Mountain Laurel was sunk on the 22nd June 1918 by a torpedo
from a German submarine (UB73) , 25 miles off Rathlin Island. No warning
was given by the submarine, and eleven crew were killed.
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Name
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Year Built
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Gross Tons
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Length (feet)
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Breadth (feet)
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Depth (feet)
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Masts
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Figurehead
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Stern
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Lloyd's Classn.
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Mountain Laurel
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1865
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690
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174.4
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30.3
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19.4
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3
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Special Survey
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Sources :
- Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1866-7: Mountain Laurel,
iron barque, 690 tons, built by Williamson at Harrington in February
1865, owned by Sprott & Co., registered at Liverpool, master
Capt.J.Fisher.
- Mercantile Navy List 1867: Mountain Laurel, 690 tons, official number 29918, registered at Liverpool, owned by John Bushby.
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Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1895-6: Mountain Laurel, iron barque, 705 grt, 653 nrt, built by Williamson at
Harrington in February 1865, owned by H.C.A.Mitchelson, registered at Sandefjord, master Capt.H.Svendsen.
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"Shipwreck Index of Ireland" by Richard and Bridget Larn (pub. Lloyd's
Register-Fairplay, 2002), ISBN 1 900839 03 02.
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Norsk
Skipsfartshistorisk Selskap (Norwegian Shipping History Society)