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Name: CALVIN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 07/02/1891
Completed: 05/1891
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 162
Dimensions: 2578grt, 1634nrt, 299.0 x 40.0 x 20.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (21.5, 36 & 60 x 39ins), 240nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 98934
History:
05/1891 Calvin SS Co Ltd (A Holland & Co), London
1897 Managers became Swan & Hunter
1897 A/S Langfond (Sigval Bergesen), Stavanger; renamed LANGFOND
23/10/1907 Wrecked
Comments: 23/10/1907: Wrecked on Carrumeiro Chico Rock, Finisterre
On a voyage from Sevilla to Windau with a cargo of copper ore