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Name: TAFNA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 17/10/1887
Completed: 12/1887
Builder: John Readhead & Co
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 231
Dimensions: 2231grt, 1416nrt, 290. 0 x 39.0 x 18.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (22, 36 & 60 x 39ins), 219nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 94341
History:
12/1887 Tafna SS Co Ltd (GE Bowring), London
1889 English & American Shipping Co Ltd (CT Bowring & Co), London
1897 Mount Stuart Ship Building, Graving Docks & Engineering Co Ltd
1897 Rowland & Marwoods Steamship Co Ltd (Chr Marwood), Whitby
1897 Renamed CORNUCOPIA
1907 Bank of Athens (N Valmas), Syra; renamed AGHIOS NIKOLAOS
1913 Nicolas Valmas, Syra
04/05/1917 Sank
Comments: 06/11/1896: Stranded on Chapel Rocks, Chepstow
when inward from Philadelphia for Sharpness
18/11/1896: Refloated but declared a CTL and sold
04/05/1917: Captured & scuttled by U-Boat UB38, 30 miles W of Cap d’Antifer
On a voyage from Oran to Boulogne with a cargo of iron ore


Above photo as CORNUCOPIA is courtesy of Clive Ketley