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Name: HORATIA
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 31/07/1886
Completed: 09/1886
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 101
Dimensions: 211grt, 93nrt, 175.0 x 19.5 x 7.5ft
Engines: CD2cyl (27 & 47 x 42ins), 99nhp
Engines by: Black, Hawthorn & Co, Gateshead
Propulsion: Paddle; (by 1923: Sail, rigged as a schooner)
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 89823
History:
08/09/1886 Hugh Sproston, Son & Co, London; registered at North Shields
1888 Registered at Georgetown, Demerara
1900 Sproston's Ltd, Georgetown
No later history known
Comments: by 1923: Engine and paddles removed
by 1923: Converted to a schooner rigged sailing vessel
Still listed in MNL 1947