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Name: PETRIANA
Type: Cargo Ship; (1891: Tanker)
Launched: 30/10/1879
Completed: 1879
Builder: Andrew Leslie & Co
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 207
Dimensions: 1672grt, 1086nrt, 260.5 x 34.2 x 21.7ft
Engines: C2cyl (33 & 62 x 42ins), 200nhp
Engines by: J Dickinson & Sons, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 81600
History:
1879 Bell & Symonds, London
1882 R Dickinson, London
1884 Edward J Walker, Newcastle
1885 William Gibson, Newcastle
1886 Alfred Suart, London
1891 Petroleum Transport & Storage Co. Ltd, London
1898 Shell Transport & Trading Co Ltd (M Samuel & Co), London
1903 Asiatic Petroleum Co Ltd, London
28/11/1903 Wrecked
Comments: 1891: Converted to a tanker
28/11/1903: Wrecked outside Port Phillip Heads on a voyage from
Sydney to Melbourne with a cargo of petroleum.