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Name: HUGIN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 03/06/1899
Completed: 07/1899
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 83
Dimensions: 1332grt, 829nrt, 237.1 x 35.1 x 18.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (18.5, 30 & 49 x 33ins), 138nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number:
History:
07/1899 D/S A/S Hugin (Bruusgaard, Kiøsterud & Co), Drammen
24/05/1906 Sank
Comments: 24/05/1906: Sank after striking a rock in the Sarmiento Channel, Chile
On a voyage from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso with a cargo of rice & wheat


Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 05/06/1899