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Name: MANCUNIUM
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 29/08/1893
Completed: 10/1893
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 100
Dimensions: 671grt, 424nrt, 180.0 x 28.2 x 13.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (13.5, 22.5 & 36 x 27ins), 77nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 101842
History:
10/1893 Fisher, Renwick & Co, Newcastle
1894 Screw Steamer Springhill Ltd (Fisher, Renwick & Co), Newcastle
1894 Renamed SPRINGHILL
1904 S Guerrera Ulrich, Catania; renamed COLONIALE
1915 L Sicard & Cie, Marseille; renamed COLONIAL
23/03/1917 Sank
Comments: 23/03/1917: Sank after a collision with EURYPIDES in the English Channel
On a voyage from Trouville to Barry in ballast