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Name: LLANDAFF
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 27/05/1865
Completed: 06/1865
Builder: Schlesinger, Davis & Co
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 3
Dimensions: 411grt, 311nrt, 152.6 x 24.3 x 14.5ft
Engines: 2cyl (32 & 32 x 24ins), 65hp
Engines by: R Morrison & Co, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 51359
History:
26/06/1865 Charles Albert Schlesinger & Frederick Blake Davis, Newcastle
10/07/1865 George Clements Hassell, John Bernard George Cooke & Martin Schlesinger, Newcastle
10/07/1865 Alexander Dalziel, William George Noble, John Fry, Charles Ellal Stallybrass and
Henry Vellacott & John Heron Wilson, Cardiff
by 1870 Henry Vellacott, Cardiff
by 1876 Thomas Baker, Cardiff
by 1890 John T Short, Cardiff
1899 Charles M Morgan, Cardiff
1899 Condemned
Comments: 20/04/1899: Ran ashore at Milbay near Land's End
09/05/1899: Re-floated & taken to Penzance
02/10/1899: Ran ashore near mouth of Bude Harbour
On a voyage from St Malo to Swansea in ballast
05/10/1899: Re-floated without the use of tugs
06/10/1899: Towed into Bude Harbour for temporary repairs
09/10/1899: Towed to Cardiff by WHITE ROSE for damage assessment
Subsequently condemned & broken up


Above: Ashore at Milbay. Photo is courtesy of George Robinson

Above: Ashore at Milbay. Photo is copyright of Cornwall Council

Above: Ashore near Bude. Photo is courtesy of David Thorn

Above: Ashore near Bude. Photo is courtesy of David Thorn

Above: Ashore near Bude. Photo is courtesy of David Thorn

Shields Gazette & Daily Telegraph, Monday, 29/05/1865

Royal Cornwall Gazette, Thursday, 04/05/1899

The Cornish Telegraph, Thursday, 05/10/1899