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Name: BALBOA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 30/08/1894
Completed: 11/1894
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 51
Dimensions: 1336grt, 829nrt, 238.8 x 33.2 x 12.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (19.25, 31 & 51 x 33ins), 154nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1898: 109419)
History:
11/1894 Cia Maritima, Barcelona
1898 Balboa Steamship Co Ltd (R Macandrew & Co), Liverpool
1916 Entente Steamship Co Ltd (Leopold Walford Ltd), London
1920 Renamed JOLLY GEORGE
1921 Walford Line Ltd, London
1923 Barzilay & Benjamin, Istanbul; renamed SEBAT
1944 TC Munakalat Vekaleti Devlet Denizyollari ve Limanlari Isletme, Istanbul
27/07/1951 Broken up
Comments: 27/07/1951: Arrived at La Spezia for breaking up


Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Friday, 31/08/1894