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Name: CHARLES but delivered as CROMER
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 04/11/1892
Completed: 02/1893
Builder: Anderson, Laverick & Co Ltd
Yard: St Lawrence, Newcastle
Yard Number: 8
Dimensions: 329grt, 159nrt, 131.1 x 22.2 x 11.3ft
Engines: C2cyl (17 & 34 x 24ins), 47nhp
Engines by: Hedley & Boyd, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 99623
History:
02/1893 Charles J Briggs, Sunderland
1894 Sobrinos de Ezquiaga, San Juan, Puerto Rico; renamed VASCO
1903 Paul van Syckel, San Juan
1904 New York & Porto Rico Steamship Co, San Juan
1905 United States & Porto Rico Navigation Co, San Juan
1908 New York & Porto Rico Steamship Co, Bath, Maine
07/02/1913 Wrecked
Comments: Launched as CHARLES for C Pile & Co, London
Although CHARLES & CROMER exist as separate vessels in the yard list there is no evidence that CHARLES existed as a delivered vessel. Also why CHARLES was allocated the later of the two yard numbers is a mystery.
07/02/1913: Wrecked at Yabucoa, Porto Rico
On a voyage from Humacao to Yabucoa with a cargo of fertiliser