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Name: WILLIAM HUNTER
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 11/02/1865
Completed: 1865
Builder: Palmer Bros & Co
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 173
Dimensions: 795grt, 587nrt, 202.0 x 28.1 x 17.4ft
Engines: I2cyl (38 & 38 x 30ins), 90hp; (1880: C2cyl (28 & 47 x 30ins), 90hp)
Engines by: Palmer Bros & Co, Jarrow; (1880: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 52668
History:
1865 Moses J Jonassohn, London
by 1888 Frederick Gordon, Newcastle
16/11/1893 Missing
Comments: 1893: Register closed