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Name: EKURO
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 16/10/1896
Completed: 11/1896
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 221
Dimensions: 485grt, 277nrt, 185.6 x 26.1 x 11.2ft
Engines: C2cyl (22 & 40 x 26ins), 70nhp
Engines by: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 106039
History:
11/1896 British & African SN Co Ltd (Elder, Dempster & Co), Liverpool
28/05/1914 Sank
Comments: 28/05/1914: Scuttled off Lagos after being stripped


Shields Daily Gazette, Saturday, 17/10/1896