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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 |
09/1853 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
03/1862 Samuel & Saul Isaac, London (as blockade runner in American civil war)
11/1863 C.E.Dixon, Liverpool |
| Vessel history |
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| 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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