Name: | CAPE COMINO |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 06/06/1891 |
Completed: | 07/1891 |
Builder: | Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company |
Yard: | Willington Quay |
Yard Number: | 88 |
Dimensions: | 2600grt, 1660nrt, 300.5 x 38.6 x 20.6ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (23, 37 & 62 x 42ins), 250nhp |
Engines by: | Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 97973 |
History: | |
07/1891 | W Milburn & Co, Newcastle |
1898 | Speeding & Marshall Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Newcastle |
1909 | Gaetano Maggiolo fu A, Genoa; renamed MADALENA |
08/1917 | Missing |
Comments: | 25/08/1917: Passed St Ann’s Head on a voyage from the Clyde and |
Milford Haven to Bagnoli. Subsequently posted missing, presumed sunk |