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Name: TRESCO
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 08/10/1889
Completed: 10/1889
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 75
Dimensions: 2595grt, 1681nrt, 300.0 x 41.0 x 19.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 38 & 61 x 42ins), 249nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 96372
History:
10/1889 EC Thin, Liverpool
1891 Steam Ship Tresco Co Ltd (EC Thin), Liverpool
1906 A/S Freysdal (J Johanson & Co), Christiania; renamed FREYSDAL
09/08/1907 Wrecked
Comments: 09/08/1907: Wrecked on Western Malcolm Ledge near Rockland, Maine
On a voyage from Stockton Springs, Maine to Ardrossan with a cargo of timber