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Name: GEORGIAN PRINCE
Type: Tanker
Launched: 23/09/1893
Completed: 11/1893
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 611
Dimensions: 3245grt, 2078nrt, 328.0 x 42.1 x 20.1ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 40 & 65 x 42ins), 282nhp
Engines by: Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 8.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 101846
History:
11/1893 James Knott, Newcastle
1901 Prince Line Ltd (James Knott), Newcastle
1917 Managers Furness, Withy & Co. Ltd
1918 British Tanker Co Ltd, London; renamed BRITISH GENERAL
1920 Cia Vasco-Valenciana de Nav, Bilbao; renamed EBROS
1927 Cia Arrendataria del Monopolio de Petroleos, Bilbao
1945 Broken up
Comments: 1929: Converted to a storage hulk
1945: Broken up at Barcelona


Above photo as EBROS courtesy of Photoship

Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 25/09/1893