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Name: LUNA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 08/05/1856
Completed: 1856
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 20
Dimensions: 477grt, 375nrt, 170.5 x 26.3 x 15.6ft
Engines: 2cyl (33 & 33 x 25ins), 75hp
Engines by: R Stephenson & Co, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a; (1875: 70690)
History:
1856 Hamburgh Gas Co Ltd, Hamburg
1875 Peter L Henderson, London
1878 Tyzack & Branfoot, Sunderland
No later history known
Comments: 09/11/1878: In collision with WESTMINSTER & barges off Greenwich
Sank in shallow water and subsequently raised
On a voyage from London to Sunderland in ballast
Not listed in MNL 1880, so may have been broken up