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Name: SAHARA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 13/04/1880
Completed: 05/1880
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 396
Dimensions: 1977grt, 1288nrt, 285.2 x 36.1 x 22.9ft
Engines: C2cyl (34 & 66 x 42ins), 235nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 81345
History:
19/05/1880 Bedouin Steam Navigation Co Ltd (W & R Thomson), Liverpool
1888 J Cory & Sons, Cardiff; renamed RAVENSHOE
05/01/1894 Sank
Comments: 05/01/1894: Sank 200 miles from Odessa
On a voyage from Odessa to Antwerp with a cargo of barley & wheat


Liverpool Journal of Commerce, Friday, 16/04/1880