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Name: SCHWALBE
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 04/12/1857
Completed: 01/1858
Builder: Palmer Bros & Co
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 67
Dimensions: 523grt, 356nrt, 176.0 x 25.7 x 15.5ft); (1866: 700grt, 515nrt, 206.1 x 26.2 x 15.2ft)
Engines: 2cyl (38 & 38 x 30ins), 90hp; (by 1890: C2cyl (25 & 52 x 36ins), 90hp)
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle - No 1104;
(by 1890: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co, Jarrow)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a
History:
01/1858 Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen
1881 Det forenede Dampskibs-Selskab A/S - DFDS, Copenhagen; renamed TULA
28/02/1897 Rudolph Neugebauer, Hamburg
03/1897 Broken up
Comments: 1866: Rebuilt to 700grt
by 1890: Re-engined
21/12/1896: Sank alongside the quay at Refshaleøen, Copenhagen
Subsequently refloated
28/02/1897: Sold in a damaged condition
03/1897: Broken up at Hamburg by R Neugebauer
Some sources suggest Yard Number 68


Above photo as TULA is courtesy of the Museet for Sofarts