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Name: DORA TULLY
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 19/04/1882
Completed: 05/1882
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 39
Dimensions: 1895grt, 1209nrt, 275.0 x 37.5 x 20.3ft
Engines: CI2cyl (35 & 68 x 45ins), 250nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 84865
History:
27/05/1882 Charles Tully & Co, North Shields
1886 Neptune Steam Navigation Co Ltd (W & TW Pinkney), Sunderland;
1886 Renamed NETTUNO
18/01/1887 Sank
Comments: 26/07/1882: Stranded in the Kerch Straits & damaged
On a voyage from Taganrog to Dunkirk
Subsequently salvaged and towed into Kerch with a forehold full of water
18/01/1887: Sank after losing her rudder in a gale 800 miles ExN of St John's Nfl
On a voyage from Rotterdam to Baltimore carrying general cargo


Jarrow Express, Friday, 21/04/1882