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Name: SAINT FAGANS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 06/1878
Completed: 1878
Builder: Schlesinger, Davis & Co
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 84
Dimensions: 1362grt, 875nrt, 248.9 x 33.3 x 18.8ft
Engines: C2cyl (29 & 56 x 36ins), 130nhp
Engines by: T Clark & Co, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 79384
History:
1878 Harrison Brothers & Moore, Cardiff
1889 Harrison, Moore & Moore, Cardiff
1895 Steamship "St Fagans" Co Ltd (Donald & Taylor), Glasgow
1900 Abaitua y Careaga, Bilbao; renamed BILBAO
04/03/1903 Sank
Comments: 04/03/1903: Sank about 40 miles W by S of Belle Ile, Bay of Biscay
On a voyage from Newport to Bilbao with a cargo of coal.


Western Mail, Wednesday, 19/06/1878