Name: | EXPRESS |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 02/1869 |
Completed: | 03/1869 |
Builder: | Readhead, Softley & Co |
Yard: | South Shields |
Yard Number: | 42 |
Dimensions: | 121grt, 24nrt, 102.6 x 18.8 x 10.5ft; (1882: 227grt, 115nrt, 138.1 x 19.1 x 10.2ft) |
Engines: | 2cyl (24 & 24 x 24ins), 50hp; (1875: C2cyl (18 & 34.5 x 22ins), 50hp) |
Engines by: | Readhead, Softley & Co, South Shields |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 62206 |
History: | |
1869 | George Robertson, Kirkwall |
by 1900 | Samuel Reid Jnr, Kirkwall |
04/04/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | 1875: Engine compounded by Readhead, Softley & Co |
1882: Lengthened | |
04/04/1917: Sank in a collision off France |