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Name: TRICOLOR
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 28/07/1904
Completed: 09/1904
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 150
Dimensions: 3843grt, 2498nrt, 350.0 x 48.1 x 17.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (25, 41 & 67 x 45ins), 339nhp
Engines by: Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
09/1904 I/S D/S Tricolor’s Rederi (Wilh Wilhelmsen), Tønsberg
25/07/1905 Wrecked
Comments: 25/07/1905: Wrecked near Cape Mendocino Light, Eureka, California
On a voyage from Nanaimo to San Francisco with a cargo of coal


Above image courtesy of Paul Smith

Shields Daily News, Saturday, 30/07/1904