Name: | CLINTONIA |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 27/08/1881 |
Completed: | 10/1881 |
Builder: | Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company |
Yard: | Willington Quay |
Yard Number: | 34 |
Dimensions: | 1970grt, 1287nrt, 287.0 x 37.0 x 21.8ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (33 & 63 x 39ins), 180nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 84857 |
History: | |
06/10/1881 | J Robinson & Co, North Shields |
1883 | J Robinson & Sons, North Shields |
1895 | Stag Line Ltd (J Robinson & Sons), North Shields |
1897 | Lewis Luckenbach, New York |
1903 | Luckenbach Transportation & Wrecking Co, New York |
1909 | Estate of L Luckenbach, New York |
1911 | EF Luckenbach, New York |
04/04/1915 | Abandoned |
Comments: | 27/04/1897: Badly damaged by a fire on the quayside at Newport News |
Loading for a voyage to Rotterdam carrying pig iron & general cargo | |
1897: Sold and converted into a barge | |
04/04/1915: Abandoned 40 miles east of Cape Hatteras | |
While towed from Brunswick (Ga) to New Haven (Ct) with a cargo of railway ties | |
Presumed to have sunk |
Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 10/05/1897