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Name: PLEIADES
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 20/12/1873
Completed: 1874
Builder: Andrew Leslie & Co
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 153
Dimensions: 2297grt, 1610nrt, 342.3 x 34.9 x 20.2ft
Engines: C2cyl (30 & 70 x 48ins), 280nhp
Engines by: Maudsley, Sons & Field, London
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 69337
History:
1874 Star Navigation Co Ltd, Liverpool
1887 Marques de Campo, Cadiz; renamed GUATEMALA
1888 Christopher Furness, West Hartlepool; renamed PLEIADES
1889 RF Routh, West Hartlepool
1891 A Trabotti, Odessa; renamed EMILIYA
01/1892 Sank
Comments: 01/1892: Sank on a voyage from Cardiff to Constantinople, a report from
Vigo on 13/01/1892 stated that her crew had been saved