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Name: CLAUD HAMILTON
Type: Cargo ship
Launched: 15/03/1862
Completed: 1862
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 95
Dimensions: 668grt, 529nrt, 200.2 x 28.2 x 16.5ft; (1886: 878grt, 460nrt, 231.3 x 28.4 x 16.5ft)
Engines: 100nhp; (18XX: C2cyl (27 & 54 x 36ins), 120nhp)
Engines by: R Morrison & Co, Ouseburn Engine Works; (18XX: D & W Henderson, Glasgow)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw with sails, square rigged
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 44865
History:
1862 Intercolonial Royal Mail Steam Packet Co Ltd, London
1867 London, Panama, New Zealand & Australia RMSP Co Ltd, London
1869 McMeckan & Blackwood, Melborne; registered at Melbourne
1880 Nipper & See, Sydney
1881 Adelaide Steamship Co, Adelaide
1886 Renamed ALBANY
28/03/1905 Wrecked
Comments: 1886: Lengthened & given a straight bow.
18XX: Re-engined
28/03/1905: Wrecked off Nambucca Heads, New South Wales


Above photo as CLAUD HAMILTON copright of the State Library of Queensland

Above image as ALBANY copright of Allan C Green

Newcastle Journal, Monday, 17th March 1862