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Name: DE BAY
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 28/05/1881
Completed: 06/1881
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 439
Dimensions: 1664grt, 1083nrt, 250.5 x 35.6 x 21.5ft
Engines: C2cyl (30 & 55 x 42ins), 160nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 82900
History:
08/07/1881 Capper, Alexander & Co, Cardiff
1885 Universal Steamship Co Ltd, London
1886 De Bay Steam Ship Co Ltd (Woodside & Workman), Belfast
1890 Managers became WJ Woodside & Co
1899 Shipping Investments Ltd (CH Pile), London
1899 NG Roussos, Syra; renamed GEORGE ROUSSOS
09/1902 Sank
Comments: Fitted with a De Bay patented dual propeller
09/1902: Sank in the Black Sea (passed Kerch on 03/07/1902)
On a voyage from Taganrog to Marseille with a cargo of grain


The Marine Engineer, July 1881