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Name: METAPEDIA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 28/02/1881
Completed: 1881
Builder: Andrew Leslie & Co
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 220
Dimensions: 2241grt, 1454nrt, 321.5 x 36.2 x 24.1ft
Engines: C2cyl (35 & 70 x 48ins), 300nhp; (1891: T3cyl (23.5, 35 & 62 x 48ins), 269nhp)
Engines by: Black, Hawthorn & Co, Gateshead; (1891: Westray, Copeland & Co, Barrow)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 84093
History:
1881 SS Metapedia Ltd (Crow, Bogart & Co), Liverpool
1882 Managers Crow, Rudolf & Co
1895 Hiroumi Nisaburo, Osaka; renamed NARA MARU
24/12/1897 Sank
Comments: 1891: Engine tripled by Westray, Copeland & Co
24/12/1897: Sank after striking rocks off the Pescadores