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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| ABYSSINIA |
63765 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1870 |
03/03/1870 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo
| Iron Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| James & George Thomson, Govan |
Cessnock Bank |
110 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 3253 grt / 2076 nrt / |
363.5 ft |
42.2 ft |
18.9 ft |
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| Engine builder |
James & George Thomson, Govan |
| Engine detail |
2cyhl vertical direcr acting, 500hp, 1 screw
1882 C2cyl, 500hp by J.Jones & Sons, Liverpool |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| The British & North American Steam Packet Company, Glasgow |
Glasgow |
13/05/1870 |
| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
07/1878 Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd., Liverpool
11/1880 J. & G. Thomson (part payment for SERVIA and CATALONIA)
11/1880 Stephen Guion, Liverpool
02/1885 William Pearce, Govan (on behalf of John Elder & Co.)
06/1888 Guion Steamship Co. Ltd., London |
| Vessel history |
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1891 |
Burned 18/12/1891 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Fire in cargo of cotton in 47N - 44W on passage New York for Liverpool, sank. |
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Abyssinia
Image courtesy of : Old Ship Picture Galleries
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Abyssinia
Image courtesy of : Vancouver Archives
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Abyssinia June 1887 at Vancouver
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