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Name: DOUGLAS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 10/07/1861
Completed: 1861
Builder: TD Marshall
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 669grt, 533nrt, 178.0 x 27.5 x 16.7ft; (1871: 768grt, 601nrt, 211.0 x 29.0 x 17.2ft)
Engines: L2cyl (34 & 34 x 26ins), 70nhp; (1879: CI2cyl (26 & 48 x 30ins), 99nhp)
Engines by: TD Marshall, South Shields; (1879: GF Pattison & Co, Newcastle)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 43732
History:
1861 WT Bell & Co, Sunderland
1881 Henry T Morton, Sunderland
1894 The Earl of Durham (Thomas Nicholson, manager), Sunderland
1896 The Lambton Collieries Ltd (Thomas Nicholson, manager), Sunderland
28/01/1905 Sank
Comments: 1871: Lengthened
1879: Re-engined & reboilered
1899: Reboilered
28/01/1905: Sank off Cross Sand, North Sea
On a voyage from London to Sunderland in ballast