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Name: CLINTONIA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 27/08/1881
Completed: 10/1881
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 34
Dimensions: 1970grt, 1287nrt, 287.0 x 37.0 x 21.8ft
Engines: C2cyl (33 & 63 x 39ins), 180nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 84857
History:
06/10/1881 J Robinson & Co, North Shields
1883 J Robinson & Sons, North Shields
1895 Stag Line Ltd (J Robinson & Sons), North Shields
1897 Lewis Luckenbach, New York
1903 Luckenbach Transportation & Wrecking Co, New York
1909 Estate of L Luckenbach, New York
1911 EF Luckenbach, New York
04/04/1915 Abandoned
Comments: 27/04/1897: Badly damaged by a fire on the quayside at Newport News
Loading for a voyage to Rotterdam carrying pig iron & general cargo
1897: Sold and converted into a barge
04/04/1915: Abandoned 40 miles east of Cape Hatteras
While towed from Brunswick (Ga) to New Haven (Ct) with a cargo of railway ties
Presumed to have sunk


Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 10/05/1897