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Name: WESTMINSTER
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 16/02/1878
Completed: 04/1878
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 365
Dimensions: 817grt, 458nrt, 220.0 x 32.2 x 13.8ft
Engines: C2cyl (27 & 51 x 33ins), 99nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 77092
History:
29/04/1878 Escombe & Howard, Newcastle
1882 The River Steam Collier Co Ltd, London
30/05/1884 Sank
Comments: 30/05/1884: Sank after a collision with NERISSA off the Mouse Light, Thames Estuary
On a voyage from South Shields to London with a cargo of coal