Name: | RUNSWICK |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 27/12/1871 |
Completed: | 1872 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 287 |
Dimensions: | 324grt, 200nrt, 142.5 x 25.9 x 12.2ft; (1895: 307grt, 287nrt) |
Engines: | 2cyl (27 & 27 x 24ins), 40hp |
Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw; (1895: Sail, rigged as a Schooner) |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 67302 |
History: | |
26/01/1872 | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd< Newcastle |
1902 | East Coast Tug & Lighter Co (Eusebius Derwent, manager), Middlesbrough |
12/1903 | Cleveland Flour Mills Ltd, Thornaby-on-Tees; registered at Middlesbrough |
12/1912 | William Slater, Middlesbrough |
08/02/1913 | Sank |
Comments: | 1895: Converted to a sailing vessel with two masts & used as a towing barge |
08/02/1913: Foundered 7 miles off Scarborough whilst under tow | |
On a voyage from Hull to Stockton-on-Tees with a cargo of wheat |