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Name: AURORA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 30/06/1863
Completed: 07/1863
Builder: Palmer Bros & Co
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 132
Dimensions: 696grt, 533nrt, 210.8 x 28.3 x 17.0ft
Engines: 2cyl, 99hp; (1872: C2cyl (26 & 51 x 30ins), 160hp)
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle; (1872: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co, Jarrow)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 47399
History:
30/07/1863 London Steam Navigation Co (Pickernell & Fenwick), London
1870 London Steam Shipping Co Ltd, London
1885 Enrico Zenoglio, Genoa
1890 E Zenoglio di P, Genoa; renamed INA Z
1896 Unknown owner, Rouen; renamed PASAJES
05/02/1897 Wrecked
Comments: 1872: Engine compounded by Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co
05/02/1897: Wrecked SSW of Lesconil
On a voyage from Pasajes to Rouen with a cargo of wine