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Name: CERWYN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 01/03/1873
Completed: 05/1873
Builder: JT Eltringham
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 27
Dimensions: 334grt, 207nrt, 150.9 x 21.1 x 11.2ft
Engines: 2cyl (24 & 24 x 30ins), 50nhp
Engines by: JP Rennoldson, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 65337
History:
20/05/1873 Edmund Hancock & Co, Falmouth
26/03/1880 Wrecked
Comments: 26/03/1880: Wrecked off Raz de Sein, Finnistere, France
On a voyage from Bilbao to Newport, Monmouth with a cargo of iron ore
Ten of the twelve crewmen lost