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Name: CHAMPION
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 28/02/1854
Completed: 05/1854
Builder: TD Marshall
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 249grt, 176nrt, 129.4 x 21.2 x 11.2ft
Engines: 60nhp
Engines by: TD Marshall, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, also rigged as a Barque
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 31788
History:
05/1854 Capt Benjamin Francis Helpman, London
by 1857 Geo Henty & Co & BF Helpman; registered at Portland, Victoria, Australia
24/08/1857 Sank
Comments: 24/08/1857: Sank after collision with LADY BIRD off Cape Otway
On a voyage from Portland to Melbourne
Sank within 15 minutes of the collision


Above description courtesy of the Heritage Council of Victoria