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Name: ASTURIAN PRINCE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 29/08/1893
Completed: 10/1893
Builder: John Readhead & Sons
Yard: West Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 291
Dimensions: 3301grt, 2499nrt, 336.0 x 42.0 x 18.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 40 & 66 x 45ins), 292nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 101844
History:
10/1893 Prince Steam Shipping Co Ltd (James Knott), Newcastle
1895 Miami SS Co Inc (T Hogan & Sons), New York; renamed MATTEAWAN
1900 Saginaw Steel Steamship Co (J Jerome), New York
12/1901 Missing
Comments: 02/06/1895: Wrecked on the east point of Curacao
On a voyage from Puerto Cabello to Curacao with iron and general cargo
07/10/1895: Re-floated and sold
1898: Requisitioned as a troop ship during the Spanish - American war
02/12/1901: Sailed from Nanaimo BC for San Francisco with a cargo of coal
Subsequently reported missing