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Name: READING
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 03/10/1883
Completed: 11/1883
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 511
Dimensions: 2043grt, 1297nrt, 286.0 x 36.2 x 22.4ft
Engines: C2cyl (32 & 64 x 42ins), 243nhp
Engines by: Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 89161
History:
15/11/1883 J Cory & Sons, Cardiff
1895 Reading Steamship Co Ltd (J Cory & Sons)
05/11/1913 Wrecked
Comments: 05/11/1913: Wrecked on South Rock, Cloughey, Co Down
On a voyage from Seville to Glasgow with a cargo of iron ore