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Name: PORT ALBERT
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 15/04/1897
Completed: 06/1897
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 113
Dimensions: 3514grt, 2250nrt, 345.0 x 46.0 x 18.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 40 & 64 x 45ins), 297nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 108207
History:
06/1897 W Milburn & Co, London
1906 A/B Sydafrikanska Handels Komp (M Wallenburg), Stockholm
1906 Renamed DELAGOA
11/04/1910 Wrecked
Comments: 11/04/1910: Wrecked at Minikoi Island, Laccadives
On a voyage from Singapore and Penang to Gothenburg with general cargo


Above photo as DELAGOA is copyright of the Museet for Sofart