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general
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nationality:
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british
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purpose:
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transport
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type:
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cargo
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subtype/class:
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collier
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propulsion:
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steamer
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date built:
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1878
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details
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weight (tons):
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967
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dimensions:
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66 x 9,75 x -- m
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engine:
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Compound expansion
An animation of a simplified triple-expansion engine.
High-pressure steam (red) enters from the boiler and passes through the engine, exhausting as low-pressure steam (blue) to the condenser.
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power:
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speed:
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about the loss
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cause lost:
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gale/storm
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other reasons:
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ran aground (wrecked)
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date lost:
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26/02/1903 [dd/mm/yyyy]
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casualties:
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about people
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builder:
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owner:
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captain:
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no. of crew:
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10
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about the wreck
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depth:
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orientation:
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protected:
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war grave:
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updates
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entered by:
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Allen Tony
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entered:
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03/11/2006
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last update:
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Allen Tony
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last update:
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19/01/2010
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Pictures
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| | | |  | |  Racey Carl09/12/2009Thompson’s yard in the 1950'sBridge Dockyard, Sunderland. - Robert Thompson opened his North Sands yard in 1846. His son, Robert, opened a yard at Southwick in 1854, while another son, Joseph Lowes, took over the yard at North Sands in 1860 and changed the company name
to J. L. Thompson. Robert Thompson Jnr’s yard closed in 1933. J L Thompson’s yard was closed in 1979, although the fitting out quay was used by Doxford’s and Laing’s. St Peter’s Campus of Sunderland University now stands on the site. | |  | | | | | |
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History
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Lettens Jan19/01/2010On February 26th, 1903, the British collier Otter caps was lost in a gale off Feuntenet, Bay of Audierne, France, while carrying an ore cargo from Bilbao to Middlesbrough. The bodies of ten of her crew were washed ashore.
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Allen Tony26/02/2009Ottercaps SS was a British Steam Collier of 967 tons built in 1878 by Robert Thompson, Southwick for H. T. Morton of Sunderland. On the 26th February 1903 she was wrecked in a gale on Feutenot when 5nm W of Auvergne. [red.: Auvergne is impossible, that is a Province in the middle of France, should be probably Audierne]
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