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Name: ROXBURGH
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 20/12/1881
Completed: 02/1882
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 456
Dimensions: 2148grt, 1407nrt, 290.6 x 37.2 x 23.1ft
Engines: CI2cyl (36 & 68 x 45ins), 250nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 84197
History:
10/02/1882 Caledonia Steam Ship Co Ltd, Liverpool
1891 Earnwood Steam Ship Co Ltd (A Earnshaw), Liverpool
1895 Renamed EARNWOOD
by 1900 Scotland Steamship Co Ltd, Liverpool
by 1904 Steamship Rydal Water Co Ltd (Donald & Taylor), Liverpool
1907 Gaetano Casabona, Genoa; renamed FELICINA
1910 Piceni, Gessaga & Co, Genoa; renamed GASPARE
1915 S Censini, Genoa; renamed AMALIA SCOTTO
1915 Renamed DOMINGO
1916 Soc Anon Ilva, Genoa
04/04/1917 Sank
Comments: 04/04/1917: Captured, shelled & sunk by U-Boat U60, 50 miles SSW of Fastnet
On a voyage from Naples to Partington