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Name: CAIRO launched as AETHIOPIA
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 06/10/1857
Completed: 10/1857
Builder: TD Marshall
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 1465grt, 996nrt, 256.2 x 35.5 x 22.8ft
Engines: 3cyl (46, 46 & 46 x 36ins), 210hp; (1875: None)
Engines by: TD Marshall, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw; (1875: Sail)
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 20451
History:
30/10/1857 Fred Chapple & Co, Liverpool
1859 S Bibby & Co, Liverpool
1873 Frederick Leyland & Co, Liverpool
1874 Thomas H Johnson, Liverpool
21/12/1876 Missing
Comments: 30/10/1857: Launched as AETHIOPIA or ETHIOPIA
1859: Acquired by Bibby for the Levant cotton trade
1874: Purchased for £9,000 & converted for £8,000
1875: Converted into a 3 masted sailing ship by WH Potter & Co at Liverpool
15/11/1876: Sailed from London for Melbourne
21/12/1876: Last seen by MILTIADES, 700 miles NE of South Georgia Island
Subsequently reported missing. 26 crew and 19 passengers lost
Her cargo included gunpowder & it is thought to have blown up


North & South Shields Gazette, Thursday, 08/10/1857

Shields Daily Gazette, Thursday, 31/05/1877