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Name: MOUNT OLIVET
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 17/01/1885
Completed: 03/1885
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 532
Dimensions: 2510grt, 1639nrt, 285.0 x 38.2 x 27.0ft
Engines: CI2cyl (36 & 68 x 48ins), 260nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 90010
History:
13/03/1885 Smith & Service, Glasgow
02/05/1890 Sank
Comments: 02/05/1890: Sank after a collision with SALTWICK in Gibraltar Bay
On a voyage from Iloilo to Montreal with a cargo of sugar
Salvors attempted to raise whole vessel by making the hull below the iron deck airtight
05/12/1890: Salvage abandoned after hull raised 16ft before iron deck gave way


Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 19/01/1885