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Name: PROVIDENCE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 06/09/1899
Completed: 10/1899
Builder: JP Rennoldson & Sons Ltd
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 198
Dimensions: 766grt, 477nrt, 225.0 x 32.0 x 10.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (15, 25 & 40 x 24ins), 78nhp
Engines by: JP Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
10/1899 FC Svorono & Sons, Mariupol, Russia
03/04/1915 Sank
Comments: 1899: Also seen as PROVIDANS
03/04/1915: Sunk by gunfire from Turkish YAVUZ south of Tarkhanhut
On a voyage from Odessa to Rostov with a cargo of sugar

Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 08/09/1899