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Name: AMBASSADOR
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 09/08/1888
Completed: 09/1888
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 66
Dimensions: 2573grt, 1665nrt, 300.0 x 38.7 x 23.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 38 & 62 x 42ins), 220nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 95253
History:
09/1888 Hall Brothers, Newcastle
19/09/1891 Wrecked
Comments: 19/09/1891: Wrecked near Salcombe
On a voyage from Odessa to Hamburg with a cargo of grain and bone meal