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Name: WOODBURN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 30/05/1874
Completed: 07/1874
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 308
Dimensions: 1788grt, 1153nrt, 280.2 x 33.5 x 24.9ft
Engines: C2cyl (30 & 60 x 33ins), 140nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 70221
History:
01/07/1874 Hutchinson & McIntyre, Newcastle
1880 McIntyre Brothers & Co, Newcastle
26/08/1883 Sank
Comments: 26/08/1883: Sank after a collision with SAINT GERMAIN, 65 miles NExE of Ouessant
On a voyage from Coconada to London carrying general cargo
WOODBURN was under tow by the tug RECOVERY at the time


Birmingham Daily Post, Tuesday, 28/08/1883