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Name: ST OSWIN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 27/05/1865
Completed: 08/1865
Builder: Palmer Bros & Co
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 179
Dimensions: 780grt, 624nrt, 210.8 x 28.0 x 17.5ft; (1870: 981grt, 623nrt, 241.6ft)
Engines: 2cyl (38 & 38 x 30ins), 95nhp; (1869: C2cyl (25 & 48 x 30ins), 99nhp);
(1877: C2cyl (27 & 50 x 33ins), 99nhp)
Engines by: Robert Stephenson & Co, Newcastle; (1869: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co, Jarrow);
(1877: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 51366
History:
12/08/1865 James Hall et al, Newcastle
1882 I & V Florio, Italy
by 1886 Navigazione Generale Italiana, Palermo; renamed IONIO
06/1894 Broken up
Comments: 1869: Engine compounded
1870: Lengthened to 241.6ft
1877: Re-engined


Newcastle Chronicle, Saturday, 24/06/1865