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Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
MELITA |
1891 |
GBR |
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Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
1853 |
27/03/1853 |
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Vessel type |
Vessel description
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Passenger / Cargo
| Iron Screw Steamer |
Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
Alexander Denny, Dumbarton |
Albert Yard |
28 |
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Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
1060 grt / 749 nrt / |
232.6 ft |
29.0 ft |
19.0 ft |
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Engine builder |
, |
Engine detail |
2cyl oscillating, 180hp, 1 screw |
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First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
Alexander Denny and William Denny & Brothers, Port Glasgow |
Port Glasgow |
05/05/1853 |
Other names |
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Subsequent owner and registration history |
9/1853 The British & Foreign Steam Navigation Company, Glasgow 1861 William Denny & Brothers (in part exchange for SIDON and MOROCCO) 12/1861 Peter Denny, J.McAusland & T.S.Begbie, Dumbarton & London - reg Glasgow 3/1862 Samuel & Saul Isaac, London - reg London 11/1863 Charles E Dixon, Liverpool 1865 reg Liverpool |
Vessel history |
5/1853 sailed Clyde and Liverpool for Constantinople c1860 lengthened: 1255grt 853nrt, 246.0 x 30.3 x 25.6ft 3/1862 claimed blockade runner in American civil war but apparently made only one round trip carrying Confederate cargo between UK and Nassau. |
Remarks |
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End year |
Fate / Status |
1868 |
Burned 05/09/1868 |
Disposal Detail |
On fire 800 miles from Queenstown on passage Boston for Liverpool and sank. |
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