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Name: HIBERNIA launched as LEINSTER
Type: Passenger Ship
Launched: 01/09/1860
Completed: 02/1861
Builder: Palmer Bros & Co
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 82
Dimensions: 3008grt, 1569nrt, 360.0 x 40.9 x 29.3ft
Engines: 3cyl, 800nhp; (1869: C4cyl (36, 36 & 60, 60 x 39ins), 320hp)
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle - No 1082; (1869: Laird Bros, Liverpool)
Propulsion: Paddle; (1871: 1 x Screw)
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 29387
History:
05/03/1861 Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Co, London
1869 Edward Bates, Liverpool
1873 Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Co Ltd, London
22/11/1877 Sank
Comments: 01/09/1860: Launched as LEINSTER
Accommodation for 700 x passengers
1871: Converted to a cable ship, with auxiliary screw propusion
22/11/1877: Sank while anchored at Alagoas in Maranham Bay, Brazil


Above photo as HIBERNIA is courtesy of Bill Glover

Above photo of HIBERNIA, INVESTIGATOR & EDINBURGH (L-R) at Darwin in 1871 is copyright of the State Library of South Australia
These three ships completed the cable links to Australia in 1871. Photo courtesy of David Asprey. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return

Newcastle Courant, Friday, 07/09/1860

Jarrow Express, Friday, 07/12/1877