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Name: THROPTON
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 29/12/1883
Completed: 1884
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 83
Dimensions: 1593grt, 1012nrt, 260.0 x 35.2 x 18.1ft
Engines: C2cyl (32 & 60 x 39ins), 175nhp
Engines by: George Clark, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 89586
History:
1884 R B Avery, London
1886 James Knott, London
1889 Renamed SWEDISH PRINCE
1895 Prince Line Ltd. (James Knott), London
1903 TS Blues & Co Ltd, South Shields; renamed THROPTON
1905 GP Cutting & Co, South Shields
1907 A/S Fjord (OM Milberg & Co), Christiania; renamed FJORD
28/02/1915 Wrecked
Comments: 28/02/1915: Wrecked on the Adour Bar
On a voyage from Glasgow to Bayonne with a cargo of coal