Naples 1875

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Name:	NAPLES
Type:	Cargo Ship
Launched:	21/04/1875
Completed:	06/1875
Builder:	Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard:	Jarrow
Yard Number:	317
Dimensions:	2289grt, 1473nrt, 316.4 x 35.8 X 25.9ft
Engines:	CI2cyl (36 & 68 x 45ins), 250nhp;
	(1888: T3cyl (22, 36.5 & 60 x 45ins), 240nhp)
Engines by:	North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co, Sunderland;
	(1888: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow)
Propulsion:	1 x Screw
Construction:	Iron
Reg Number:	70728
History:
23/06/1875	Nelson, Donkin & Co, London
1900	Lagoara & Pittaluga, Genoa; renamed FEBO
06/02/1906	Wrecked

Comments:	1888: Engine tripled by Palmers'
	06/02/1906: Wrecked on Cannon Rock near Cloughey, County Down
	On a voyage from Almeria to Glasgow with a cargo of iron ore