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Name: BANJERMASSIN
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 02/06/1886
Completed: 10/07/1886
Builder: J Wigham Richardson & Co
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 203
Dimensions: 428grt, 261nrt, 500dwt, 174.0 x 23.7 x 12.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (14.5, 22.5 & 38 x 30ins), 80nhp
Engines by: J Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.3knots (trials)
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 88017
History:
17/08/1886 Guthrie & Co, Liverpool; registered at Singapore
1888 Kho Soen Tjio & Ang Eng Tjio, Banjermassin; Netherlands flag
1889 Ocean Steam Ship Co Ltd, Liverpool
1891 East Indian Ocean Steamship Co Ltd, Liverpool
1894 NV Nederlandsche Soomvaart Mij “Ocean”, Amsterdam
1896 East Indian Ocean Steamship Co Ltd, Liverpool
1899 AO Meyer, Bremen; renamed SULU
1900 Norddeutscher Lloyd , Bremen
1900 Tuason & Sampedro, Manila; renamed TAN AUCO
13/03/1901 Wrecked
Comments: Built for the Singapore to Borneo service
Contract Price £8500; Profit £1692-9s-4d
13/03/1901: Wrecked on Patras Shoal in the South China Sea


Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Thursday, 03/06/1886