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Name: LONDON
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 19/03/1862
Completed: 07/1862
Builder: Andrew Leslie & Co
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 44
Dimensions: 1303grt, 1013nrt, 240.0 x 30.6 x 25.4ft; (1883: 1579grt, 996nrt, 276.5 x 30.6 x 25.1ft)
Engines: L2cyl (43 & 43 x 33ins), 120hp; (1883: CI2cyl (30 & 55 x 36ins), 120nhp)
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle; (1883: Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 45007
History:
09/07/1862 Western Wood (Wood & Hall), London
1862 John Hall Jnr & Co, London
1892 Sir William Gray, West Hartlepool
by 1899 Henry J Purvis, London
1900 Adam S Kettelwell, London
1905 Broken up
Comments: 1883: Re-engined and lengthened to 276.5ft & 1579grt
1902: British registry closed
10/1905: Broken up at Hamburg


Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 22/03/1862