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Name: LATONA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 15/08/1863
Completed: 09/1863
Builder: Palmer Bros & Co
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 133
Dimensions: 699grt, 534nrt, 212.0 x 28.2 x 16.9ft
Engines: 2cyl, 99hp; (1873: (C2cyl (26 & 51 x 30ins), 160hp)
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle; (1873: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co, Jarrow)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 47429
History:
16/09/1863 London Steam Navigation Co (Pickernell & Fenwick), London
1870 London Steamship Co Ltd, London
31/01/1876 Sank
Comments: 1873: Engine compounded
31/01/1876: Sank near Dover after a collision with SILISTRIA


Newcastle Courant, Friday, 21/08/1863

Liverpool Daily Post, Wednesday, 02/02/1876