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Name: MURIEL
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 15/06/1881
Completed: 1881
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 33
Dimensions: 2060grt, 1373nrt, 290.0 x 36.2 x 23.2ft
Engines: C2cyl (38 & 71 x 45ins), 250nhp; (1893: Q4cyl (22, 32.75, 44 & 64 x 45ins), 259nhp)
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 82745
History:
1881 Robert S Briggs, Sunderland
1882 CW Cayzer (Cayzer, Irvine & Co), Glasgow; renamed CLAN MURRAY
11/1896 The Clan Line Steamers Ltd (Cayzer, Irvine & Co), Glasgow
1897 Dene Steam Shipping Co Ltd (JT Lunn & Co), Newcastle
1897 Renamed OLIVEDENE
1900 Lim Ching Tsong, Rangoon; renamed SEANG LEONG
07/1902 Missing presumed sank
Comments: 06/1881: Launched for WB Ritchie & Co, Dundee, sold prior to completion
1893: Engine quadrupled by Westray, Copeland & Co, Barrow-in-Furness
25/07/1902: Sailed from Singapore for Amoy, posted missing presumed sank.


Marine Engineer, July 1881