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Name: ELDERSLIE
Type: Passenger Refrigerated Cargo Ship
Launched: 30/04/1884
Completed: 05/1884
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 538
Dimensions: 2761grt, 1801nrt, 300.0 x 40.0 x 23.9ft
Engines: C2cyl (38 & 72 x 48ins), 305nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 89929
History:
20/06/1884 Elderslie Steam Ship Co Ltd (Turnbull, Martin & Co), Glasgow
1898 Talbot Steamship Co Ltd (T Bowen Rees & Co), London
1899 Simpson Steamship Co Ltd (W Simpson), London
1900 Renamed ELLAMY
01/05/1905 Wrecked
Comments: Accommodation for 10 x 1st, 50 x 2nd & 140 x 3rd Class passengers
01/05/1905: Wrecked at Tokoro, Kitami, Hokkaido due to encroaching ice
On a voyage from Yokohama to Tokoro in ballast
01/07/1905: Hull & materials sold for £ 690


Above photo as ELDERSLIE is courtesy of Photoship

Above painting as ELDERSLIE is by DO Robertson

Liverpool Journal of Commerce, Friday, 21/07/1905