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Name: DURLEY
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 20/12/1866
Completed: 02/1867
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 211
Dimensions: 785grt, 534nrt, 212.3 x 28.3 x 17.5ft; (1875: 950grt, 700nrt, 241.7ft)
Engines: C2cyl (25 & 47 x 30ins), 98hp
Engines by: Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 56761
History:
04/02/1867 George Palmer & Co, London
1869 Samuel Powditch, London
1871 Cuthbert Hutchinson, London
1883 Leeds Steam Ship Co Ltd, Cardiff
10/04/1887 Sank
Comments: 1875: Lengthened to 241.7ft
10/04/1887: Sank after a collision with SIRIUS off the Gironde Estuary
On a voyage from Cardiff to Trieste with a cargo of patent fuel


Shields Daily Gazette, Thursday, 28/04/1887