| Name: | PORT PHILLIP |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 17/06/1897 |
| Completed: | 08/1897 |
| Builder: | Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company |
| Yard: | Willington Quay |
| Yard Number: | 114 |
| Dimensions: | 3103grt, 1970nrt, 324.8 x 48.5 x 22.8ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (23, 38.5 & 64 x 45ins), 279nhp |
| Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel & Iron |
| Reg Number: | 108243 |
| History: | |
| 06/1897 | W Milburn & Co, London |
| 08/01/1900 | Buenos Aires, Great Southern Railway Co Ltd (A Holland & Co), London |
| 1900 | Renamed SOLA |
| 12/1912 | Missing |
| Comments: | 08/01/1900: Purchased for £40,100 |
| 23/12/1912: Sailed from Newport for Buenos Aires with a cargo of coal & railway iron | |
| Subsequently posted missing | |
| Thought to have foundered off South Cornwall in severe gale 26/12/1912 |
Above photo as SOLA is copyright of Liverpool Maritime Museum
Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 18/06/1897