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Name: CASTLEDALE launched as BAY OF ABOUKIR
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 11/11/1882
Completed: 25/12/1882
Builder: J Wigham Richardson & Co
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 143
Dimensions: 2358grt, 1532nrt, 3252dwt, 300.4 x 37.2 x 26.6ft
Engines: C2cyl (38 & 72 x 48ins), 330nhp
Engines by: J Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.1knots (trials)
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 86270
History:
25/12/1882 Castledale Steam Ship Co Ltd (Thomlinson & Thomson & Co, managers), Liverpool
1885 J Little & Co, Glasgow
1894 Burrell & Sons, Glasgow
1898 Angf Akt Metellus (BM Bank), Helsingborg
1901 D Milberg, Hamburg; renamed EMMA
26/09/1903 Sank
Comments: 11/11/1882: Launched as BAY OF ABOUKIR
Ordered by WW Long & Taylor, Liverpool, but sold before completion
Contract Price £40700, Profit £6790
26/09/1903: Foundered 30nm south of Taenholm
On a voyage from Narvik to Ardrossan with a cargo of iron ore


Lloyd's List, Monday, 20/11/1882