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Name: DURHAM
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 29/06/1853
Completed: 08/1853
Builder: Palmer Bros & Co
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 7
Dimensions: 531grt, 428nrt, 163.7 x 26.4 x 15.2ft
Engines: Steam, 80hp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle - No 835
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 9996
History:
30/08/1853 General Iron Screw Collier Co Ltd, London
24/11/1857 Wrecked
Comments: 24/11/1857: Wrecked at Audierne, 30 miles south of Brest
On a voyage from Cape Coast, Ghana, to London with a cargo of palm oil


Globe, Thursday, 26/11/1857