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Name: PURUNI
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 05/05/1905
Completed: 06/1905
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 741
Dimensions: 295grt, 151nrt, 141.0 x 24.5 x 8.6ft
Engines: 2 x T3cyl (9.5, 15 & 25 x 18ins), 90nhp
Engines by: AG Mumford Ltd, Colchester
Propulsion: 2 x Screws
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 120577
History:
06/1905 Sproston's Ltd, London & Georgetown, Demerara
1912 Registered at Georgetown
29/08/1918 Wrecked
Comments: 20/03/1917: Requisitioned by The Admiralty as a patrol vessel
Armed with 2 x 13pdr guns
29/08/1918: Wrecked west of Mayero Island, Grenadines.