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Name: PERSIA
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 16/03/1870
Completed: 05/1870
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 253
Dimensions: 1285grt, 258.8 x 31.4 x 16.8ft
Engines: C2cyl (30 & 60 x 33ins), 172nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a
History:
05/1870 R Rubattino & Co, Genoa
1880 Soc per la Navigazione a Vapore Raffaele Rubattino & C, Genoa
1881 Navigazione Generale Italiana, Genoa
1910 Broken up
Comments: Built for the service between Genoa and Alexandria
Accommodation for 50 x 1st and 40 x 2nd Class passengers
Q3/1910: Broken up at Genoa


Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Monday, 21/03/1870