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Name: BOSTON
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 07/02/1866
Completed: 04/1866
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 196
Dimensions: 656grt, 423nrt, 180.8 x 28.0 x 17.1ft; (1872: 868grt, 664nrt, 226.0 x 28.2 x 17.1ft)
Engines: Steam, 80hp; (1872: C2cyl (24 & 44 x 30ins), 80nhp)
Engines by: (1872: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 54652
History:
04/04/1866 James Duke Hill & others, London
1872 Commercial Steam Ship Co Ltd, London
21/01/1896 Sank
Comments: 1872: Lengthened to 226.0ft & engine compounded
26/11/1891: In collision with and sank the barque CHARLWOOD off Plymouth
21/01/1896: Sank off the Girdler LV, Thames Estuary, after a collision with ARDOE
On a voyage from Swansea to London with a cargo of coal


Lloyd's List, Saturday, 28/03/1896