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Name: STATIRA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 27/04/1868
Completed: 06/1868
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 230
Dimensions: 862grt, 633nrt, 211.4 x 28.2 x 17.4ft; (1873: 994grt, 753nrt, 239.9ft)
Engines: Steam, 160hp; (1875: C2cyl (26 & 51 x 30ins), 160hp)
Engines by: (1875: Victoria Dock Engine Works Co Ltd, London)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 60827
History:
11/06/1868 London Steamship Co Ltd, London
1887 Edward S Bilton & Herbert G Williams, Newcastle
19/11/1891 Sank
Comments: 1873: Lengthened to 239.9ft
05/1875: Engine compounded
19/11/1891: Sank after a collision with ALICIA in Bilbao Bay
On a voyage from Bilbao to Middlesbrough with a cargo of iron ore