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Name: PROMETHEUS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 21/11/1885
Completed: 1886
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 260
Dimensions: 2376grt, 321.0 x 36.5 x 26.4ft
Engines: C2cyl (27 & 58 x 45ins), 188nhp
Engines by: Robert Stephenson & Co, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 91278
History:
1886 Ocean Steam Ship Co (A Holt & Co), Liverpool
1894 NV Nederlandsche Stoom Mij "Oceaan", Amsterdam
1894 Ocean Steam Ship Co (A Holt & Co), Liverpool
1895 Nippon Yusen KK, Tokyo; renamed UJINA MARU
20/05/1895 Wrecked
Comments: 20/05/1895: Wrecked about this date in Talienwan Bay