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The steamboat “Centric” is burst "Memory after the donor’s husband Karl Gustaf Andersson-Liedenstam. “Centric” was mined in the Gulf of Bothnia. Captain Liedenstam made a sketch, as he had seen it all and let a Helsingborg painter perform the drawing board." “Centric” was formerly known as “Ellaston” and was built for W. S. Miller & Co, Glasgow. This steelmaker was bought by Rederi AB Kärnan in 1913 while it was in Cardiff and renamed “Centric.” The price was £20.000. It was built in Glasgow in 1903 by R Duncab & Co Ltd and measured 1609 gross tons and 1.023 net tons. The machine power was 750 ind. hkr. Captain K. Larsson was appointed commander. The first trip of the steamer went to the Mediterranean. During the First World War on April 20, 1915, the steamer, under the command of Captain K. G. Andersson, resigned from Immingham with 2429 tonnes of coal destined for Gefle. 26 April at At 16.00, the ship collided with a mine near Fluttan’s bark (arc?) in southern Kvarken. “Centric” quickly began to sink with the foreman and the crew left her in the lifeboats. 10 minutes after the explosion, the ship sank. The two lifeboats entered Söderarm’s pilotstation, the entire crew escaped unscath.2