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Name: WENTWORTH
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 22/06/1865
Completed: 07/1865
Builder: T & W Smith, Limekilns Shore
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 27
Dimensions: 352grt, 277nrt, 148.0 x 24.7 x 13.2ft; (1870: 397grt, 306nrt, 167.2 x 24.7 x 13.2ft)
Engines: 2cyl, 48hp
Engines by:
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 51365
History:
07/1865 Thomas Eustace Smith & George Luckly, Newcastle and James Southern, London
18/05/1873 Sank
Comments: 1870: Lengthened to 167.2ft
18/05/1873: Foundered 23 nmiles SE of Spurn Head
On a voyage from Shields to London with a cargo of coal