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Name: BEHERA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 02/1864
Completed: 06/1864
Builder: TD Marshall
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 1364grt, 1117nrt, 241.0 x 32.7 x 17.0ft; (1879: 1384grt, 1032nrt, 239.5 x 32.7 x 24.9ft)
Engines: I2cyl (45 & 45 x 36ins), 140nhp; (1879: CI2cyl (30 & 54 x 36ins), 127nhp)
Engines by: TD Marshall, South Shields; (1879: M Paul & Co, Dumbarton)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 49619
History:
16/06/1864 Christopher Dove Barker, Newcastle
17/11/1864 Christopher Dove Barker, Newcastle & Thomas Stephens, London
29/05/1865 Frederick Chapple, London & Samuel Dutton, Liverpool
29/05/1865 Anglo Egyptian Steam Navigation Co, London
by 1869 David & Co, Antwerp; renamed FANNY DAVID
by 1878 David-Verbist & Co, Antwerp
1879 William Tilburn, Glasgow; renamed BEHERA
1882 James Donald, Glasgow
1886 JP Maclay & TW McIntyre, Glasgow
1894 Steamship "Behera" Co Ltd, Glasgow
23/03/1895 Wrecked
Comments: 1879: Engine compounded
23/03/1895: Wrecked on the east coast of Alderney
On a voyage from Sunderland to Saint Nazaire, France


Glasgow Herald, Saturday, 20/04/1895