Name: | BASINGSTOKE |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 23/09/1865 |
Completed: | 12/1865 |
Builder: | Bainbridge, Davy & Hopper |
Yard: | Willington Quay |
Yard Number: | 4 |
Dimensions: | 649grt, 520nrt, 206.5 x 27.0 x 15.8ft; (1867: 201.5 x 27.2 x 15.8ft) |
(1870: 649grt, 441nrt); (1873: 660grt, 419nrt) | |
Engines: | 2cyl (36 & 36 x 26ins), 80nhp; (1872: CI2cyl (24 & 42 x 30ins), 80nhp) |
Engines by: | Robert Morrison & Co, Ouseburn Engine Works; (1872: J Stewart, London) |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 53208 |
History: | |
05/12/1865 | J Robert Ekless, Southampton; registered at South Shields |
1866 | Registered at Southampton |
1867 | Southampton Steam Collier & Coal Co Ltd, Southampton |
1874 | Companhia Thetis, Oporto, Portugal; renamed RIO TEJO |
1898 | H Duquenne & G Albrecht, Antwerp; renamed LEGIA |
13/04/1902 | Sank |
Comments: | 13/04/1902: Sank after a collision with JULIO off the Newarp Light Vessel |
On a voyage from Tonnay Charente to West Hartlepool with a cargo of pyrites |