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Name: AMY DORA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 19/06/1875
Completed: 08/1875
Builder: Cole Bros
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 30
Dimensions: 1708grt, 1107nrt, 265.0 x 34.0 x 24.4ft
Engines: CI2cyl (31 & 58 x 33ins), 150nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 70402
History:
23/08/1875 Joseph Robinson & Co, North Shields
1883 Joseph Robinson & Sons, North Shields
05/10/1889 Wrecked
Comments: Cost £28000 to build
05/10/1889: Wrecked on Watchapreague Shoals, Virginia
On a voyage from Savannah & Newport News to Genoa with a cargo of cotton