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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