Category:Scottish Glens (ship, 1885)

English: Scottish Glens was a full-rigged ship, built 1885 by Oswald, Mordaunt & Co., Southampton (yard no. 225) for W. H. Ross & Co., Liverpool. 1898 she sold to G. Windram & Co., Liverpool and 1910 to A/S Scottish Glens (Chr. Nielsen & Co.), Larvik (Norway) and later to several other Norwegian owners. 1918 she lost her rigging in a storm. Sold 1922 to Consul Sigvart Rasmussen, Haugesund and converted to a motor cargo ship with two diesel engins at the Vulcan Werke A/G, Stettin. 1924 she renamed Haugar. 1929/30 converted to a whale factory in Sandefjord and whaling in the Antarctic. She had several Norwegian owners in this time and sold 1940 to Leonardo Arrivabene S. A. (Leo Salom), Venice and renamed Arca. In October 26, 1942 she was sunk by the British submarine HMS Taku in the Aegean Sea, 9 miles South of Chios.
Dimensions: length × beam × depth = 279.6 × 40.4 × 24.5 ft (85.2 × 12.3 × 7.4 m) and tonnage 116 GRT, 1977 NRT, 3175 TDWT.^[1][2]