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Name: FALKLAND
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 29/03/1892
Completed: 05/1892
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 92
Dimensions: 2918grt, 1878nrt, 315.0 x 40.5 x 21.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 38 & 64 x 42ins), 266nhp
Engines by: T Richardson & Sons, Hartlepool
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 99808
History:
05/1892 Raeburn & Verel, Glasgow
1899 Kirk Steamship Co Ltd (JR Cuthbertson & Co), Glasgow
1900 DG Moraitis, Andros; renamed GEORGIOS
18/05/1905 Wrecked
Comments: 18/05/1905: Wrecked on Kaloyeri Rocks, Syra
On a voyage from Sulina to Antwerp with a cargo of grain