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Name: MAXIMA
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 14/09/1867
Completed: 09/1867
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 221
Dimensions: 499grt, 153.6 x 28.4 x 17.4ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Barque
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 56850
History:
24/09/1867 Cuthbert Hutchinson, Whitburn; registered at London
1867 John McIntyre, Jarrow
by 1875 Burgess & Shaddick, Swansea; registered at Swansea
1877 George B Meager, Swansea
No later history known
Comments: The first iron vessel to be sheathed in zinc plates, a McIntyre & Palmer patent
1897: Register closed