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Name: GABALVA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 12/01/1888
Completed: 02/1888
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 6
Dimensions: 1662grt, 965nrt, 259.5 x 36.0 x 17.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (20, 33 & 54 x 36ins), 177nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 95155
History:
02/1888 JH Wilson, Cardiff
1892 GL Premuda & Co, Trieste; renamed DOROTEA
1898 Motala Rederi (GF Petterson), Motala; renamed GUSTAF
1906 Manager became CA Arvidson
10/01/1907 Wrecked
Comments: 10/01/1907: Wrecked at Fjand, Jutland
On a voyage from Blyth to Stockholm with a cargo of coal