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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| GOVAN |
63878 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1872 |
12/1871 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Cargo General
| Iron Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| J. & R. Swan, Dumbarton |
Upper Woodyard |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 525 grt / 311 nrt / |
173.7 ft |
25.2 ft |
13.7 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Blackwood & Gordon, Port Glasgow |
| Engine detail |
| 85hp. 1-Screw. |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| William Dixon, Glasgow |
Glasgow |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
| 1872 J. M. Thomson, Glasgow. |
| Vessel history |
Laid down for William Burrell & Sons, Glasgow. William Dixon, a broker, sold the vessel to J M Thomson.
29.7.75 stranded. On return to Leith she had seven plates damaged, her plate twisted and needing 300 rivets replaced. |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1876 |
Missing |
| Disposal Detail |
Vessel missing and supposed to have been lost in September 1876, off the coast of France.
27.9.1876 had sailed from Ardrossan for Rochefort.
A glass container was later found at Newry with the message "Ship Govan - steering apparatus gone - no hope - dreadful gale on coast of France Sep 29 - God help us" |
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