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Name: SANTON
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 01/06/1889
Completed: 07/1889
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 141
Dimensions: 2504grt, 1622nrt, 303.5 x 39.0 x 20.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (22.5, 36.5 & 60 x 39ins) 220nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 96607
History:
07/1889 Huddart, Parker & Co Ltd, Melbourne
1894 Glanayron Steam Ship Co Ltd (LJ Mathias), Aberystwyth; renamed GLANAYRON
22/05/1896 Wrecked
Comments: 22/05/1896: Wrecked on Outer Diamond Shoal, Hatteras
On a voyage from Fernandina to Rotterdam with a cargo of phosphate rock