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Name: COLUMBINE
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched 28/07/1866
Completed: 05/09/1866
Builder: J Wigham Richardson & Co
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 44
Dimensions: 733grt, 499nrt, 836dwt, 195.9 x 28.1 x 16.2ft
Engines: 2cyl (38 & 38 x 30ins), 90nhp; (1874: 18 & 36 x 30ins), 90hp)
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle; (1874: M Samuelson, Hull)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.25knots (trials)
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 56230
History:
11/09/1866 Richard Glover & John Dyson, Hull; registered at Hull
16/05/1868 Richard Glover, John Dyson & others, Hull
1876 Richard Glover, Hull
1880 John Dyson, Hull
10/08/1881 Wrecked
Comments: Accommodation for 12 x 1st Class & 12 x 2nd Class passengers
Placed on the Hull to Hamburg and the Baltic route
1874: Engine compounded by M Samuelson, Hull
10/08/1881: Stranded on Horn Reef, Jutland
On a voyage from Hull to Cronstadt carrying general cargo


Newcastle Journal, Tuesday, 31/07/1866

Hull Packet, Friday, 12/08/1881