Name: | FORTUNA |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 13/05/1862 |
Completed: | 07/1862 |
Builder: | Palmer Bros & Co |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 111 |
Dimensions: | 666grt, 497nrt, 206.5 x 26.1 x 17.2ft |
Engines: | 2cyl, 90nhp; (1871: C4cyl (21, 21 & 38, 38 x 30ins), 98hp); |
(1874: CI2cyl (26.5 & 46 x 30ins), 90hp) | |
Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle; (1871: G & W Young, Glasgow); |
(1874: D Rowan, Glasgow) | |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 45008 |
History: | |
09/07/1862 | London Steam Navigation Co (Fenwick & Pickernell), London |
1867 | William Watt, Glasgow |
1868 | John Bell et al, Glasgow; registered at Glasgow |
1888 | James Clark, Glasgow |
1898 | Robert Russell, Glasgow |
by 1904 | Bell's Asia Minor Steamship Co Ltd, Liverpool |
by 1907 | Oscar Galea, Alexandria |
No later history known | |
Comments: | 27/01/1867: Stranded on Atherfield Point on the Isle of Wight |
Subsequently refloated | |
1874: Re-engined | |
1878: Reboilered | |
1920: British register closed |