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Name: WILLIAM BANKS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 27/03/1869
Completed: 1869
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 185
Dimensions: 722grt, 460nrt, 204.3 x 28.1 x 16.6ft
Engines: 2cyl (38 & 38 x 30ins), 96hp; (by 1878: CI4cyl (24, 24 & 38, 38 x 30ins), 96nhp)
Engines by: T Richardson & Sons Ltd, Hartlepool
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 60933
History:
1869 Thomas Richardson & Sons; registered at London
1875 Louis Jean Baptiste Gueret, Cardiff
1890 Helier J Langlois, Cardiff
1894 Walter J Tillett, Cardiff
No later history known
Comments: by 1878: Engine compounded by T Richardson & Sons
1895: Register closed