Name: | TUNIS |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 29/01/1873 |
Completed: | 04/1873 |
Builder: | C Mitchell & Co |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 274 |
Dimensions: | 1374grt, 776nrt, 240.3 x 30.1 x 17.0ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (27 & 50 x 33ins), 110nhp; |
(1889: Q4cyl (14.75, 18.5, 27.25 & 50.5 x 36ins), 110hp) | |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland; |
(1889: W Allan & Cox, Sunderland) | |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 68407 |
History: | |
30/04/1873 | Nelson, Donkin & Co, London |
1896 | Tunis Steamship Co Ltd (HA Elphick), London |
1899 | M Roca Hermanos, Barcelona; renamed ADELA ROCA |
1904 | Cia Maritima Comercial (J Roca), Barcelona |
08/12/1911 | Wrecked |
Comments: | 1889: Engine quadrupled |
08/12/1911: Wrecked at Pedrioz near La Coruna | |
On a voyage from San Esteban de Pravia to Valencia with a cargo of coal |