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Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
HARLINGEN |
65780 |
GBR |
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Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
1872 |
10/08/1872 |
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Vessel type |
Vessel description
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Cargo General
| Iron Screw Steamer |
Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
Dobie & Co., Govan |
Old Yard |
60 |
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Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
231 grt / 146 nrt / |
140.6 ft |
20.9 ft |
10.8 ft |
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Engine builder |
Kemp & Hume, Glasgow |
Engine detail |
C2Cyl. Inv. DA.(16 & 29 - 22)in 40nhp, 1-screw. |
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First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
Leith & Harlingen Steamship Co Ltd - manager J. Burnett, London. |
Leith |
23/11/1872 |
Other names |
ABBEY TOWER (launched) |
Subsequent owner and registration history |
(M J Wilson, Liverpool - launched) 5.1874: Sold to J.B. & W.W. Burnett, London - reg London |
Vessel history |
7/12/1872 commenced Leith-Harlingen service 2/1873 withdrawn from Leith-Harlingen service |
Remarks |
(LEITH & HARLINGEN S.S.CO LTD - constituted 9.1872 capital £8,320; directors included W.N.Lindsay; wound-up 4.1874 in financial trouble and only £65 of each £130 share repaid.) |
End year |
Fate / Status |
1876 |
Collision 27/02/1876 |
Disposal Detail |
Struck on masts of sunken STRATHCLYDE and, taking water. headed for Dover. After one mile she sank, 3/4mile SSW of Admiralty Pierhead, Dover (London for Rouen, general cargo); crew got ashore in ship's boats |
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