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Name: CAVENDISH
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 23/07/1883
Completed: 1883
Builder: Schlesinger, Davis & Co
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 135
Dimensions: 1614grt, 1024nrt, 248.3 x 34.8 x 20.8ft
Engines: C2cyl (29 & 56 x 42ins), 169nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 86964
History:
1883 J Perry, West Hartlepool
1884 Ward & Holzapfel, West Hartlepool
1886 R & D Cairns, Leith
1893 D Cairns, Leith
1906 Bank of Athens, Andros; renamed CORNILIA
1907 Renamed PRINCIPESSA ALIKI
1913 Ditta RV Prinzi, Catania; renamed GRAZIA
18/06/1915 Sank
Comments: 18/06/1915: Sank after being shelled by KuK torpedo-boat 74 near
Giulanova in the Adriatic, on a voyage from Venice to Catania in ballast


Marine Engineer, October 1883