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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| HOPE |
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GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1838 |
11/06/1838 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo
| Wood Paddle Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Scott & Sons, Greenock |
Westburn East |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 338 grt / 192 nrt / |
135.6 ft |
20.0 ft |
14.2 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Scott, Sinclair & Co., Greenock |
| Engine detail |
| Side-lever |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Abraham Borradaile, John Simpson & David Guthrie, London (Cape of Good Hope Steam Navigation Co) |
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| Vessel history |
South Africa's first coasting steamer
9/1838 sailed Greenock for Cape of Good Hope via Cork and Tenerife; arrived pre19/12/1838 |
| Remarks |
| Also recorded as 240nrt, 143.9 x 21.6 x 15.7ft |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1840 |
Wrecked 11/03/1840 |
| Disposal Detail |
| 11/3/1840 wrecked on rocks off Cape St Francis, Eastern Cape (Table Bay for Algoa Bay). All 72 passengers and crew were saved with a constructed raft and a damaged jolly-boat. |
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