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Name: CORA MARIA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 05/07/1879
Completed: 1879
Builder: Schlesinger, Davis & Co
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 100
Dimensions: 1285grt, 831nrt, 235.0 x 31.2 x 18.3ft
Engines: C2cyl (28 & 53 x 36ins), 120nhp
Engines by: T Clark & Co, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 81772
History:
1879 Capper, Alexander & Co, Cardiff
1885 Universal Steam Shipping Co Ltd, London
1887 R Gordon & Co, London
1898 Gordon Steam Shipping Co Ltd, London
1900 Channel Dry Docks Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Limited, Cork
1901 G Vallee, Rouen; renamed CYCLOPE
06/04/1901 Sank
Comments: 25/12/1899: Sank in Sea Reach, River Thames after a collision with
the French MARNE when inward from Jarrow with a cargo of coal.
19/01/1900: Refloated and sold to Channel Dry Docks for repair
06/04/1901: Sank after a collision with PENZANCE off Penmarch
On a voyage from Siracusa to Nantes with a cargo of coal