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Name: NEWARK
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 21/12/1893
Completed: 01/1894
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 679
Dimensions: 1028grt, 552nrt, 221.3 x 32.0 x 13.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (19, 31.5 & 51.5 x 33ins), 150nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 101850
History:
01/1894 Newcastle Steamship Co Ltd (JJ & CM Forster), Newcastle
1899 Chinese Eastern Railway Co Ltd, Newchang; renamed TSIZIKAR
1902 Registered at Port Arthur under Russian flag; name rendered as TZIZIKAR
1907 Shuzo Yamaki, Kobe; renamed YUMIHARI MARU
1910 Utsonomiya Kaisoten Goshi Shosen Kaisha, Kobe
1912 Mori Heizo, Hakodate
1920 Shimidzu Shotaro, Hakodate
1921 Shimizu Kisen KK, Hakodate
1923 Sodegaura Kisen KK, Hakodate
1926 Uyechi KK, Nishinomiya
02/04/1940 Wrecked
Comments: 02/01/1905: Scuttled at Port Arthur
Subsequently raised by Japanese salvors
02/04/1940: Wrecked on Matsure Island