Name: | TREASURE TROVE |
Type: | Sailing Ship |
Launched: | 06/06/1868 |
Completed: | 07/1868 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 232 |
Dimensions: | 1452grt |
Engines: | None |
Engines by: | n/a |
Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Ship |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 60081 |
History: | |
14/07/1868 | G & H Fletcher & Co, Shields; registered at Liverpool |
06/09/1868 | Abandoned |
Comments: | 04/09/1868: Cargo of coal caught fire due to spontaneous combustion |
06/09/1868: Abandoned when 800 miles west of Monrovia | |
On a voyage from Shields to Calcutta with a cargo of coal | |
Vessel assumed to have burned out and sunk |
Shields Daily News, Tuesday, 09/06/1868
Liverpool Daily Post, Tuesday, 06/10/1868