Name: | EUROPA |
Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 27/02/1872 |
Completed: | 04/1873 |
Builder: | J Wigham Richardson & Co |
Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 81 |
Dimensions: | 2237grt, 1260nrt, 314.5 x 35.6 x 28.8ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (52 x 92 x 42ins), 780nhp |
Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
04/1873 | GB Lavarello & Co, Genoa |
1883 | Matteo Bruzzo & Co |
1884 | La Veloce Linea di Navigazione Italiana a Vaopre |
1893 | Broken up |
Comments: | 75 x 1st, 52 x 2nd and 750 x steerage (emigrant) class passengers |
The route was Genoa - Gibraltar - Cadiz - St Vincent (for coal only) - | |
Montevideo - Buenos Aires | |
Sometimes bringing cereals from Rosario, back on the return voyages | |
1883: Following the sinking of NORD AMERICA the Lavarello company | |
collapsed and the ships were sold | |
1884: Matteo Bruzzo also got into financial difficulties and the ship was sold |