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Name: ELSWICK
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 20/12/1897
Completed: 03/1898
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 69
Dimensions: 196grt, 81nrt, 112.0 x 20.0 x 9.0ft
Engines: C2cyl (15.25 & 28 x 20ins), 50nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 106630
History:
03/1898 Robert Mason, Newcastle
by 1907 James W Ellis (Robert Mason, Manager), Newcastle
1916 H & C Grayson Ltd (Thomas A Lawrenson, manager), Liverpool; renamed HOLYHEAD
1925 Charles W Scott, Bowling, Dumbarton; registered at Coleraine
by 1926 JR Watt & Son Ltd, Portrush, Co Antrim
1933 Alexander Dempsey, Maryport; registered at Maryport
Maryport Steamship Co Ltd, Maryport
No further history known
Comments: 1951: UK Register closed


Above photo as HOLYHEAD is courtesy of Photoship