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Name: SCHWAN
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 11/02/1858
Completed: 02/1858
Builder: Palmer Bros & Co
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 68
Dimensions: 521grt, 354nrt, 176.0 x 25.6 x 15.5ft; (1865: 630grt, 496nrt, 201.6 x 25.0 x 16.3ft)
Engines: 2cyl (38 & 38 x 30ins), 90hp; (by 1890: C2cyl (26 & 52 x 36ins), 100hp)
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle - No 1105; (by 1890: Palmer Bros & Co, Jarrow)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a
History:
02/1858 Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen
1881 Det forenede Dampskibs-Selskab A/S - DFDS, Copenhagen; renamed MINSK
02/07/1898 Dampskibsactieselskabet Minsk (H Haslum), Moss
03/1905 Broken up
Comments: 1865: Lengthened to 201.6ft, 630grt
by 1890: Re-engined
03/1905: Broken up at Moss, Norway
Some sources suggest Yard Number 67