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Name: DUCHESS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 30/12/1857
Completed: 04/1858
Builder: Andrew Leslie & Co
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 18
Dimensions: 192grt, 115nrt, 128.2 x 18.2 x 11.6ft
Engines: I2cyl (26 & 26 x 20ins), 60nhp; (1876: CI2cyl (16 x 26.25 x 20ins), 35hp)
Engines by: R Morrison & Co, Newcastle; (1876: Kemp & Hume, Glasgow)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 20485
History:
21/04/1858 John Grieg, Lancaster
by 1867 CO Robinson, Liverpool
by 1870 Alfred Dansey, Tranmere
by 1875 Peter Barr & Archibald Fawcett, Glasgow; registered at Glasgow
1879 Alexander H Taylor, Aberdeen
No later history known
Comments: 1876: Engine compounded