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Name: MILTON STUART
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 30/05/1892
Completed: 08/1892
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 177
Dimensions: 3178grt, 2930nrt, 327.2 x 46.6 x 25.8ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Barque
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 99431
History:
08/1892 "Milton Stuart" Ship Co Ltd (M Stuart), Liverpool
10/1898 Macvicar, Marshall & Co, Liverpool
24/10/1898 GJH Siemers & Co, Hamburg
07/08/1899 Renamed THEKLA
18/07/1911 Wrecked
Comments: 1892: Built at a cost of £26,000
10/1898: Sold for £17,000
24/10/1898: Sold for £17,500
09/07/1911: Wrecked at the Le Marie Straits near Tierra del Fuego
On a voyage from Cardiff to Valparaiso with a cargo of coal


Above painting as MILTON STUART is by Lai Fong

Above photo as MILTON STUART is courtesy of Kevin Blair

Above photo as MILTON STUART is courtesy of Kevin Blair

Above photo as THEKLA is courtesy of the Malcolm Brodie collection

Shields Daily Gazette, Tuesday, 31/05/1892