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Name: PORT HUNTER
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 19/11/1892
Completed: 12/1892
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 313
Dimensions: 4670grt, 3011nrt, 360.40 x 48.0 x 26.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (30, 48 & 78 x 54ins), 650nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 101958
History:
12/1892 Anglo-Australasian Steam Navigation Co Ltd (W Milburn & Co), London
1894 Japanese Government - Rikugun Sho, Tokyo; renamed RIOJUN MARU
1896 Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Tokyo
1910 Harada Shoko Goshi Kaisha, Amagasaki
1917 Harada Kisen KK, Amagasaki
28/05/1921 Wrecked
Comments: 28/05/1921: Wrecked on a reef 45 miles north of Gaspar Strait
On a voyage from Dairen to Java with a cargo of coal