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Name: ARIEL
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 13/10/1894
Completed: 11/1894
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 53
Dimensions: 1572grt, 994nrt, 250.0 x 35.0 x 15.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (18.5, 30 & 49 x 33ins), 138nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
11/1894 A/S Ariel (LB Rafen), Holmestrand
1905 Mitsubishi Goshi Kaisha, Nagasaki; renamed TANOURA MARU
02/06/1913 Wrecked
Comments: 02/06/1913: Wrecked on Quelpart Island (now known as Jeju, South Korea)
On a voyage from Wakamatsu to Shanghai with a cargo of coal


Above photo as ARIEL is copyright of the Norsk Maritimt Museum