Name: | CAMELLIA |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 14/08/1878 |
Completed: | 1878 |
Builder: | Tyne lron Shipbuilding Co |
Yard: | Willington Quay |
Yard Number: | 11 |
Dimensions: | 1363grt, 880nrt, 258.0 x 32.0 x 21.2ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (28 &54 x 33ins), 130nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co, Sunderland |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 79208 |
History: | |
25/09/1878 | Joseph Robinson & Co, North Shields |
1883 | Joseph Robinson & Sons, North Shields |
02/09/1895 | Transferred to Stag Line Ltd, North Shields |
1898 | Tyneside Line Ltd (J Ridley, Son & Tully managers), Newcastle |
1910 | Broken up |
Comments: | 1878: Cost £20,780 |
16/05/1910: Badly damaged in a collision off Cross Sands with WINKFIELD | |
On a voyaqe from Ghent to the River Tyne in ballast | |
Arrived in the Tyne and found to be not worth repairing | |
Sold to R Blake and broken up at Sunderland |