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Name: ROSSLYN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 04/05/1878
Completed: 05/1878
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 369
Dimensions: 846grt, 545nrt, 220.0 x 30.2 x 15.5ft
Engines: C2cyl (28 & 52 x 33ins), 99nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 77218
History:
31/05/1878 J Cory, Cardiff
1886 J Cory & Sons, Cardiff
1899 J Cory & Sons Ltd, Cardiff
1899 G Vallée, Rouen; renamed MERCURE
04/02/1900 Wrecked
Comments: 04/02/1900: Wrecked on the south end of Alderney
On a voyage from Swansea to Rouen with a cargo of coal


Jarrow Express, Friday, 31/05/1878

Hampshire Advertiser, Wednesday, 07/02/1900