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