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Name: FINSBURY
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 24/07/1880
Completed: 09/1880
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 48
Dimensions: 1909grt, 1230nrt, 270.0 x 35.1 x 24.5ft
Engines: C2cyl (26 & 32 x 42ins), 200nhp; (1893: T3cyl (20, 33 & 54 x 36ins), 170nhp)
Engines by: Thomas Clark & Co, Newcastle; (1893: Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 82795
History:
06/09/1880 Watts, Ward & Co, London
1895 Britain Steam Ship Co Ltd (Watts, Watts & Co), London
22/09/1903 Missing
Comments: 1893: Re-engined by Blair & Co
22/09/1903: Sailed from Kobe to Vladivostok carring general cargo
Subsequently reported missing


The Newcastle Courant, Friday, 30/07/1880