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Name: KING’S CROSS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 11/11/1882
Completed: 12/1882
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 482
Dimensions: 2155grt, 1407nrt, 284.2 x 36.3 x 24.1ft
Engines: C2cyl (30 & 64 x 42ins), 250nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 87029
History:
21/12/1882 George Loram & Co, London
1887 John A Lee, London
1897 King’s Cross Steamship Co Ltd (JA Lee), London
11/11/1898 Wrecked
Comments: 11/11/1898: Wrecked on the Casquet Rocks at Bayonne
When outward from Bayonne for Cardiff with a cargo of pitwood