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Name: CAPTAIN MCCLURE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 01/1876
Completed: 03/1876
Builder: Edward Lindsay
Yard: St Lawrence, Newcastle
Yard Number: 61
Dimensions: 464grt, 285nrt, 170.0 x 23.9 x 14.6ft
Engines: CI2cyl (24 & 45 x 26ins), 80hp
Engines by: T Richardson & Sons, Hartlepool
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 72648
History:
31/03/1876 Unknown owner; registered at West Hartlepool
1876 Michael Murphy Jr, Dublin; registered at Dublin
04/03/1884 Sank
Comments: 04/03/1884: Foundered 12nm SW of the Smalls off Pembrokeshire
On a voyage from Neport to Cork with a cargo of coal