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Name: VIGILANT
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 25/02/1884
Completed: 1884
Builder: T & W Toward
Yard: Low Benwell, Newcastle
Yard Number: 6
Dimensions: 379grt, 220nrt, 152.4 x 23.5 x 12.2ft
Engines: C2cyl (21 & 38 x 24ins), 65nhp
Engines by: Wapping Engineering Works Co, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 87981
History:
1884 John Bacon Ltd, Liverpool
25/07/1906 Wrecked
Comments: 25/07/1906: Wrecked 8nm south of Roches Douvres
On a voyage from Cardiff to St Brieuc with a cargo of coal