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Name: KESTREL
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 25/01/1868
Completed: 03/1868
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 226
Dimensions: 855grt, 555nrt, 212.0 x 28.2 x 17.0ft
Engines: 2cyl, 99hp; (1875: C2cyl (19 & 38 x 30ins), 115nhp)
Engines by: (1875: London & Glasgow Engineering Co Ltd)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 58546
History:
06/03/1868 Cork Steam Ship Co Ltd (E Pike & Co), Cork
29/06/1883 Wrecked
Comments: Probably engined by Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
1875: Engine compounded
29/06/1883: Wrecked off the coast of Wicklow
On a voyage from Hamburg to Dublin carrying general cargo


Dublin Daily Express, Wednesday, 08/08/1883