Name: | PARAGUAY |
Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 06/02/1864 |
Completed: | 04/1864 |
Builder: | Palmer Bros & Co |
Yard: | Willington Quay |
Yard Number: | 137 |
Dimensions: | 1441grt, 1210nrt, 251.2 x 32.0 x 21.6ft |
Engines: | 2cyl (45 & 45 x 36ins), 180hp; (1873: C2cyl (31 & 54 x 36ins), 180nhp) |
Engines by: | Palmer Bros & Co, Jarrow; (1873: London & Glasgow Engineering Co, Glasgow) |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 45359 |
History: | |
18/04/1864 | Malcolmson Brothers, Waterford; registered at Waterford |
1870 | John Garnett Armstrong & others, Dublin |
1877 | Societe d'Alimentation, Marseilles |
1886 | Henry F Craggs, Middlesbrough; registered at Middlesbrough |
10/02/1891 | Sank |
Comments: | Trading as the River Plate Steamship Co |
1873: Engine compounded | |
10/02/1891: Sunk in the River Scheldt after a collision with NORTH BRITAIN | |
On a voyage from Antwerp to Phillippeville with a cargo of patent fuel |