Name: | OPTIMA |
Type: | Sailing Vessel |
Launched: | 12/10/1867 |
Completed: | 10/1867 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 222 |
Dimensions: | 499grt, 153.6 x 28.4 x 17.4ft |
Engines: | None |
Engines by: | n/a |
Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Barque |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 56869 |
History: | |
14/10/1867 | Cuthbert Hutchinson, Whitburn; registered at London |
10/04/1870 | Sank |
Comments: | 06/04/1870: Sank after a collision with VILLE DE HAVRE off Cape Doro |
On a voyage from Shields to Odessa with a cargo of coal |
Shields Daily Gazette, Wednesday, 27/04/1870