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Name: ROSCOMMON
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 08/02/1879
Completed: 04/1879
Builder: CS Swan & Co
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 40
Dimensions: 1500grt, 970nrt, 245.0 x 33.3 x 23.0ft
Engines: CI2cyl (30 & 57 x 39ins), 160nhp
Engines by: Black, Hawthorn & Co, Gateshead
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 79691
History:
12/04/1879 JD Milburn (Wm Milburn & Co), London
20/11/1879 Sank
Comments: 20/11/1879: Foundered 100 miles SE of the Azores
On a voyage from Liverpool to Havana with a cargo of coal