Name: | BLAENAVON |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 26/04/1881 |
Completed: | 05/1881 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Willington Quay |
Yard Number: | 447 |
Dimensions: | 1296grt, 842nrt, 240.9 x 33.2 x 16.5ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (28 & 54 x 36ins), 99nhp |
Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 84652 |
History: | |
18/05/1881 | Blaenavon SS Co Ltd (Morel Brothes & Co), Cardiff |
19/02/1892 | Missing |
Comments: | 19/11/1883: Sank after a collision with CROWN OF ARRAGON in the |
the Clyde, when inward from Lisbon for Glasgow | |
27/11/1883: Salvaged and subsequently repaired | |
19/02/1892: Sailed from Glasgow for Bayonne with a cargo of coal | |
Subsequently reported missing |
Above painting courtesy of Museum Wales - JG Campbell & Co
Shields Daily News, Thursday, 28/04/1881
Dundee Courier, Wednesday, 21/11/1883