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Name: MARIE FLEURIE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 24/07/1880
Completed: 1880
Builder: JT Eltringham
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 85
Dimensions: 510grt 279nrt 166.0 x 25.2 x 12.9ft
Engines: C2cyl (22 & 40 x 30ins), 70nhp
Engines by: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 83891
History:
1880 Fisher, Renwick & Co (George Renwick, manager), Newcastle
21/11/1902 Angfartygs AB Avanti (K Frick, manager), Gothenburg, Sweden
03/1903 Renamed HAKAN
05/1916 Shipping Controller (ER Newbiggin, manager), London
1921 A McKay, Belfast; renamed FERNDENE
1928 W Satorsky & P Vivat, Riga, Latvia.
04/03/1928 Sank
Comments: 21/11/1902: Purchase price £4500
05/1916: Captured by Royal Navy off the Norwegian coast en route between Haugesund and Lubeck with 3232 barrels of pickled herrings. Seized
04/03/1928: Foundered after springing a leak while travelling through ice, 9 miles from Messaragotsem near Riga. All crew rescued.