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Name: AUSTRALIA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 16/04/1881
Completed: 1881
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 417
Dimensions: 2151grt, 1603nrt, 297.9 x 37.1 x 22.8ft
Engines: C2cyl (34.5 & 64 x 42ins), 250nhp
Engines by: Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1881 Edward Carr, Hamburg
1888 Hamburg-Amerika Packetfahrt AG, Hamburg
26/01/1902 Wrecked
Comments: 26/01/1902: Wrecked at Oude Doel Plaat, Vlissingen on a voyage from
Hamburg to the West Indies