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Name: BAWTRY
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 28/10/1890
Completed: 11/1890
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 83
Dimensions: 2407grt, 1542nrt, 290.0 x 38.1 x 19.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (21.5, 35 & 58 x 39ins), 222nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 98495
History:
11/1890 Sivewright, Bacon & Co, West Hartlepool
1903 Imperial Steamship Co Ltd (Sivewright, Bacon & Co), West Hartlepool
1905 Japanese Government; renamed ROKKO MARU
1906 Osaka Shosen KK, Osaka
1915 Yamazaki Matsuzo, Hakodate
1920 Yamazaki Kisen KK, Hakodate
25/09/1921 Sank
Comments: 17/01/1905: Captured by Japanese heavy cruiser TOKIWA in the
Tsushima Strait, on a voyage from Kiao-Chaou to Vladivostok
25/09/1921: Sank near Hamashima with a cargo of coal