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Name: MINERVA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 18/01/1862
Completed: 04/1862
Builder: Palmer Bros & Co
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 109
Dimensions: 676grt, 497nrt, 206.5 x 26.1 x 17.2ft
Engines: 2cyl, 90hp; (1870: C2cyl (25 & 48 x 30ins), 140hp)
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle - No 1148; (1870: Palmer Bros & Co)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 44832
History:
08/04/1862 London Steam Navigation Co (Fenwick & Pickernell), London
1870 London Steamship Co Ltd, London
1883 Michael Murphy (Palgrave, Murphy & Co), Dublin
189X John Murphy, Dublin
1908 Broken up
Comments: 1870: Engine compounded
1908: Broken up at Garston by JJ King & Sons Ltd