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Name: MONARCH
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 01/07/1897
Completed: 10/1897
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 224
Dimensions: 9041grt, 4776nrt, 470.0 x 56.0 x 31.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (2805, 46.5 & 80 x 54ins), 548nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 106880
History:
10/1897 Furness, Withy & Co Ltd (Elder, Dempster & Co), Liverpool
1900 Elder Dempster Shipping Ltd, Liverpool
1910 Elder Line Ltd (Elder, Dempster & Co), Liverpool
1927 Soc Anon de Nav Casmona, Genoa; renamed MONARCA
1931 Broken up
Comments: 08/1931: Broken up at Genoa


Above photo as MONARCH courtesy of Richard Cox

Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 02/07/1897