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Name: CAPTAIN COOK
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 27/10/1870
Completed: 03/1871
Builder: WB Hornby
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 7
Dimensions: 250grt, 155nrt, 141.0 x 22.2 x 10.4ft
Engines: I2cyl (24 & 24 x 24ins), 40hp
Engines by: Pattison & Atkinson, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 58783
History:
16/02/1871 Whitby Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Whitby
1873 Michael Murphy Jnr, Dublin; registered at Dublin
1895 George Webster, Glasgow
18/02/1899 Wrecked
Comments: 18/02/1899: Wrecked at Clogher Head, near Drogheda, Ireland
On a voyage from Glasgow to Drogheda with a cargo of coal


Yorkshire Post, Thursday, 09/03/1871

Belfast Telegraph, Tuesday, 21/02/1899