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Name: ISLE OF ELBA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 23/07/1883
Completed: 07/1883
Builder: T & W Smith
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 86
Dimensions: 943grt, 562nrt, 210.9 x 32.4 x 16.0ft
Engines: C2cyl (25 & 50 x 33ins), 120nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 88742
History:
07/1883 Dixon, Robson & Co, Newcastle
1897 A/S Spring (H Siegwarth), Christiania; renamed SPRING
1912 A/S Spring (Jacobsen & Co), Langesund
16/01/1914 Sank
Comments: 16/01/1914: Sank after a collision with ss HERDLA in Hjeltefjord on a
voyage from the Tyne to Trondheim with a cargo of coal