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Name: EIFFEL TOWER
Type: Cargo ship
Launched: 10/02/1891
Completed: 04/1891
Builder: William Dobson & Co
Yard: Walker
Yard Number: 43
Dimensions: 3187grt, 2063nrt, 330.0 x 40.3 x 26.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 38 & 61 x 42ins), 258nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 98919
History:
04/1891 F Stumore & Co, London
1893 Dunedin Steamship Co Ltd, Leith
1904 Renamed DUNDAS
1912 Utsunomiya Kaisoten Goshi Kaisha, Kobe; renamed EUROPA MARU No 2
1916 Uchida Kisen KK, Tarumi
1918 Sugano Gomei Kaisha, Amagasaki; name rendered as YOROPPA MARU No 2
1921 Hamane Shoten KK, Yuge; renamed YOROPPA MARU
1927 Taiyo Gyogyo Goshi Kaisha, Yuge
2Q/1929 Broken up
Comments: 01/10/1894: Ran aground on Cold Knap Point at Barry in South Wales
Refloated at high tide the same day and towed to Barry Dock for repair
2Q/1929: Broken up in Japan


Above photo courtesy of Clive Ketley