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Name: RICHARD KELSALL
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 11/08/1885
Completed: 1885
Builder: John Readhead & Co
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 218
Dimensions: 1639grt, 1042nrt, 259.0 x 37.2 x 18.0ft
Engines: C2cyl (26.5 & 58 x 36ins), 162nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 89810
History:
08/1885 WDC Balls & Son, North Shields
1913 Rederi A/B Percivald (H Persson), Landskrona; renamed TORGRIM
31/10/1914 Wrecked
Comments: 31/10/1914: Wrecked at Rattray Head, south of Fraserburgh
On a voyage from Stockholm to Grangemouth with a cargo of sawn timber.


Above photo as RICHARD KELSALL is courtesy of Clive Ketley

Above photo as TORGRIM is copyright of the Robert Bomans Collection