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Name: ELDON
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 04/08/1868
Completed: 1868
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 170
Dimensions: 1002grt, 644nrt, 224.5 x 29.2 x 17.6ft
Engines: 2cyl (40 & 40 x 30ins), 100nhp; (1874: CI2cyl (27 & 52 x 30ins), 98hp)
Engines by: Thompson, Boyd & Co, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 62302
History:
1868 Joseph Heald et al Newcastle
18/11/1874 Adamson & Short, Newcastle; renamed ROWENA
1881 Henry Clapham, Newcastle
1884 Clapham Steam Ship Co, Newcastle
by 1887 George T Baker, Cardiff
1888 Edward A Cohan, Liverpool
1889 Unknown Owner, Spain; renamed BAUTISTA RAMOS
1889 P Conesa y Calderon, Cartagena; renamed VILLENA
by 1896 Guixot & Cia, Cartagena
1918 Ricardo Ramos, Barcelona; renamed RAMON
No later history known
Comments: 1874: Engine compounded by Thompson, Boyd
1927: Register closed