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Name: GLAUCUS
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 16/10/1871
Completed: 11/1871
Builder: Andrew Leslie & Co
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 141
Dimensions: 2112grt, 1604nrt, 322.0 x 33.7 x 25.6ft
Engines: C2cyl (28.5 & 61 x 45ins), 250nhp
Engines by: R Stephenson & Co, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 65897
History:
23/11/1871 Ocean Steam Ship Co (A Holt & Co), Liverpool
1891 NV Nederlansche Stoomv Mij “Ocean”, Amsterdam
1895 East India Ocean Steam Ship Co, Singapore
1896 Nagoshi Aisuke, Osaka; renamed JINTSU MARU
28/06/1898 Wrecked
Comments: 28/06/1898: Wrecked at Shimoda, Sagami while on a coastwise voyage


Above photo as GLAUCUS is courtesy of the Peter Newall collection