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Name: PORT PHILLIP
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 17/06/1897
Completed: 08/1897
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 114
Dimensions: 3103grt, 1970nrt, 324.8 x 48.5 x 22.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 38.5 & 64 x 45ins), 279nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 108243
History:
06/1897 W Milburn & Co, London
1900 Buenos Aires, Great Southern Railway Co Ltd (A Holland & Co), London
1900 Renamed SOLA
12/1912 Missing
Comments: 23/12/1912: Sailed from Newport for Buenos Aires with a cargo of coal
Subsequently posted missing, presumed that she sank


Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 18/06/1897