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Name: MOUNT’S BAY
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 10/09/1881
Completed: 1881
Builder: Schlesinger, Davis & Co
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 119
Dimensions: 2243grt, 1453nrt, 290.0 x 37.2 x 27.2ft
Engines: C2cyl (37 & 70 x 45ins), 253nhp
Engines by: Black, Hawthorn & Co, Gateshead
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 85251
History:
1881 Mount’s Bay SS Co Ltd (F Banfield & Sons), Penzance
1894 JD Bischoff, Bremen; renamed HERMANN
1896 Dampfs Ges ‘Argo’, Bremen
29/10/1906 Sank
Comments: 29/10/1906: Sank after a collision PETER RICKMERS near the East Goodwin LV
On a voyage from Antwerp to the Mediterranean with general cargo