Name: | CORINTH |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 06/12/1873 |
Completed: | 1873 |
Builder: | Schlesinger, Davis & Co |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 52 |
Dimensions: | 287grt, 183nrt, 135.0 x 21.0 x 11.9ft; (1889: 384grt, 166.6 x 21.1ft) |
Engines: | 2cyl (22.5 & 22.5 x 24ins), 35hp; (1889: C2cyl, 19 & 37 x 24ins, 52nhp) |
Engines by: | Christie, Gutch & Co, North Shields; (1889: W Kemp, Glasgow) |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 70261 |
History: | |
26/01/1874 | Short & Dunn, Cardiff |
1877 | Schlesinger, Davis & Co, Newcastle |
1877 | C Stallybrass, Cardiff |
1878 | Henry J Vellacott & Son, Cardiff |
1882 | Donald Macdonald, Liverpool; renamed MICROPHONE |
1899 | Richard G Foster (H Silcocks), Belfast & Gloucester |
1905 | GS Patrikios fils, Cephalonia; renamed PHISCARDON |
21/02/1906 | Destroyed |
Comments: | 08/04/1878: Stranded on Brigg’s Reef, County Down |
On a voyage from Neath to Belfast with a cargo of coal | |
Subsequently salvaged but not re-registered until 1882 | |
1889: Re-engined | |
21/02/1906: Burned out off Yniada, 80 miles NE of Constantinople | |
On a voyage from Constanza to Constantinople with a cargo of petroleum |
Cardiff Times, Saturday, 20/12/1873