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Name: DOUGLAS HILL
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 06/03/1890
Completed: 04/1890
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 641
Dimensions: 2172grt, 1384nrt, 275.3 x 37.8 x 20.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (22, 35 & 58 x 39ins), 213nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 95192
History:
01/04/1890 E Thomas, Radcliffe & Co, Cardiff
1908 Renamed IOLO
1909 F Childs & Co, Cardiff; renamed SELWORTHY
17/03/1910 Sank
Comments: 17/03/1910: Sank after an explosion off the Canary Islands
On a voyage from Las Palmas to Sevilla in ballast
Board of Trade Inquiry decided the explosion was probably sabotage by the crew


Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 07/03/1890

Extract of BoT Inquiry, 28/06/1910