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Name: AVALON
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 16/06/1888
Completed: 07/1888
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 102
Dimensions: 2083grt, 1354nrt, 280.0 x 37.5 x 19.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (22, 36 & 59 x 39ins), 170nhp
Engines by: Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 95444
History:
07/1888 English & American Steam Shipping Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co), London
1900 Aznar y Cia, Bilbao; renamed BAT
12/02/1900 Missing
Comments: 12/02/1900: Sighted off Barry Island on a voyage from Newport to La Rochelle with coal.
Subsequently reported missing. Wreckage was later found off the French coast.