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Name: GLEN CALADH TOWER
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 24/07/1888
Completed: 10/1888
Builder: Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 6
Dimensions: 3607grt, 2401nrt, 340.0 x 43.0 x 26.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (25.5, 41 & 67 x 42ins), 400nhp
Engines by: Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.5knots (trials)
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 95475
History:
16/10/1888 F Stumore & Co, London
1889 Pinkney & Sons Steam Ship Co Ltd (DG & T Pinkney), Sunderland
1889 Renamed IDAHO
23/07/1890 Wrecked
Comments: 23/07/1890: Stranded on South Point, Anticosti Island, Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada
On a voyage from Montreal to Avonmouth carrying cattle & general cargo


Newcastle Evening Chronicle, Tuesday, 24/07/1888

Liverpool Journal of Commerce, Monday, 20/10/1890