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Name: HOTSPUR
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 04/08/1868
Completed: 09/1868
Builder: T & W Smith, Limekilns Shore
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 35
Dimensions: 1081grt, 714nrt, 221.2 x 30.5 x 18.2ft
Engines: I2cyl (40 & 40 x 30ins), 99nhp; (1872: C2cyl (28 & 52 x 30ins), 98rhp)
Engines by: Thompson, Boyd & Co, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 62304
History:
25/09/1868 Elliott & Co, Newcastle
1877 T & W Smith, Newcastle
1887 Hotspur SS Co Ltd (GF Cutting & Co), South Shields
No later history known
Comments: 1872: Engine compounded
1906: Register closed