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Name: COUNT D'ASPREMONT
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 19/02/1874
Completed: 07/1874
Builder: Coulson, Cooke & Co
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 7
Dimensions: 476grt, 303nrt, 162.5 x 23.2 x 14.1ft
Engines: C2cyl (20.5 & 40 x 28ins), 65hp
Engines by: Christie, Gutch & Co, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 70222
History:
07/07/1874 Henry F Swan, Newcastle
1875 G Reid, Newcastle
1875 C Balguerie & Zoon, Rotterdam; renamed OTHELLO
1892 Harries Bros & Co Ltd, Swansea; renamed COUNT D'ASPREMONT
1898 Anglo-American Agency Co Ltd (Isaac Crocker), Cardiff
09/12/1903 Wrecked
Comments: Probably launched as FRAMLINGTON for Humble & Thompson
09/12/1903: Wrecked on Horse Rock, Ramsey Sound
On passage from Dublin for Newport Monmouthshire in ballast.


Above photo as COUNT D'ASPREMONT courtesy of David Asprey

Newcastle Journal, Friday, 20/02/1874