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Name: PFEIL
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 25/01/1868
Completed: 1868
Builder: Schlesinger, Davis & Co
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 12
Dimensions: 711grt, 567nrt, 200.0 x 28.6 x 16.3ft
Engines: 2cyl (36 & 36 x 26ins), 80hp; (1875: CI4cyl (22, 22, 34.5 & 36 x 26ins), 70hp
Engines by: Thompson, Boyd & Co, Newcastle; (1875: CB Normand, Le Havre)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1868 O Eichmann, Hamburg
1871 G Beck, Dunkirk; renamed FAULCONNIER
No later history known
Comments: 23/08/1868: In collision with SIR ROBERT PEEL at Dunkirk
08/1870: Seized in Elbe estuary by French cruiser CHATEAU-RENAULT
and brought to Dunkerque
1875: New boiler and engine compounded