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Name: ASIATIC
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 01/1852
Completed: 01/1852
Builder: Andrew McLeod
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 954nrt, 149.7 x 30.8 x 22.5ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Ship
Construction: Wood
Reg Number:
History:
27/01/1852 Middle Dock Co (TH Henderson, JA Woods & A McLeod), Newcastle
02/11/1853 Sword & Co, Greenock; registered at Glasgow
18/06/1861 Sank
Comments: 18/06/1861: Foundered in a gale in Algoa Bay off South Africa at 34.44S - 25.25E
On a voyage from Akyab to Falmouth with a cargo of rice etc


Greenock Advertiser, Saturday, 31/08/1861