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Name: WHITWOOD
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 1872
Completed: 12/1872
Builder: Henry Penman
Yard: Whitehill Point, North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 391grt, 232nrt, 143.8 x 23.6 x 10.7ft
Engines: C2cyl (18 & 36 x 24ins), 60nhp
Engines by: Bowden Bros, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 68872
History:
11/01/1873 Unknown owner; registered at Sunderland
1873 Meek, Bailey & Briggs, Goole
1874 Yorkshire Coal & Steam Ship Co Ltd, Goole
24/12/1883 Wrecked
Comments: 24/12/1883: Wrecked on Fiquefleur Bank, mouth of the Seine
On a voyage from Goole to Rouen with a cargo of coal & general goods