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Name: BRINDISI
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 27/09/1862
Completed: 11/1862
Builder: Palmer Bros & Co
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 116
Dimensions: 898grt, 635nrt, 250.5 x 27.8 x 19.6ft
Engines: 2cyl, 270hp; (1875: CI2cyl (33 & 60 x 33ins), 270hp;
(1887: T3cyl (24, 38 & 62 x 36ins), 231nhp
Engines by: Palmer Bros & Co, Jarrow; (1875: Palmer Bros & Co, Jarrow);
(1887: Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.5knots
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1862 C Palmer, Turin
by 1878 R Rubattino & Co, Genoa; renamed MALTA
1881 Navigazione Generale Italiana, Genoa
No later history known
Comments: 1875: Engine compounded
1887: Re-engined
1905: Converted to a coal hulk at Palermo


Newcastle Journal, Tuesday, 30/10/1862