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Name: DELABOLE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 01/11/1884
Completed: 1884
Builder: William Dobson & Co
Yard: Walker
Yard Number: 6
Dimensions: 420grt, 244nrt, 155.0 x 23.0 x 11.2ft
Engines: C2cyl (21 & 38 x 26ins), 70hp
Engines by: Wigham, Richardson & Co, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 91352
History:
1884 Delabole Steamship Co Ltd (FS Hockaday), Newport
1886 JL Mowinckel & Son, Bergen; renamed RAPID
1890 W Troye, Bergen
1899 S Lindo, Haugesund
15/11/1899 Wrecked
Comments: 18/12/1889: Wrecked at Kvalen, west of Haugesund
On a voyage from Bergen to Spain with a cargo of stockfish
Subsequently refloated and sold
15/11/1899: Wrecked at Grindavik, Ilka Bay, Iceland