| Name: | HAMBOURG |
| Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 22/04/1856 |
| Completed: | 07/1856 |
| Builder: | Vernon & Co |
| Yard: | Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 3 |
| Dimensions: | 279nrt, 178.1 x 24.2 x 13.5ft; (1876: 410grt, 246nrt, 178.1 x 24.3 x 13.5ft) |
| Engines: | I2cyl (36 & 36 x 26ins), 80nhp; |
| (1880: C2cyl (22 & 38 x 26ins), 80nhp) | |
| Engines by: | Morrison & Co, Ouseburn Iron Works, Newcastle; |
| (1880: McIlwaine, Lewis & Co, Belfast) | |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw & rigged as a Schooner |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | n/a; (1876: 73483) |
| History: | |
| 1856 | Schiller Brothers & Co, Hamburg |
| 13/05/1876 | Antrim Iron Ore Co Ltd; registered at Belfast; renamed VENUS |
| 1878 | Renamed RATHKENNY |
| 05/01/1896 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | Also seen as HAMBURG |
| This order was a subcontract from Charles Mitchell & Co, YN 22 | |
| Built for the Le Havre to Hamburg service | |
| 1880: Engine compounded | |
| 05/01/1896: Wrecked 2 miles W of Dunnet Head Light | |
| On a voyage from Belfast to Leith with a cargo of iron ore |