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Name: ADVENTURE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 04/02/1886
Completed: 02/1886
Builder: John Readhead & Co
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 220
Dimensions: 1938grt, 1156nrt, 280.0 x 38.8 x 18.8ft
Engines: C2cyl (34 & 64 x 42ins), 218nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 89779
History:
02/1886 Robert Harrowing, Whitby
1896 Angfartygs A/B Gefle (PJ Haegerstrand), Gefle; renamed HERMES
1910 Manager E Brodin
26/08/1911 Sank
Comments: 26/08/1911: Sank after a collision with British trawler JASON when 80 miles
east of the Tyne on a voyage from Skelleftea to Tyne Dock with mining timber