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Name: EUROPA
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 27/02/1872
Completed: 04/1873
Builder: J Wigham Richardson & Co
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 81
Dimensions: 2237grt, 1260nrt, 314.5 x 35.6 x 28.8ft
Engines: C2cyl (52 x 92 x 42ins), 780nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a
History:
04/1873 GB Lavarello & Co, Genoa
1883 Matteo Bruzzo & Co
1884 La Veloce Linea di Navigazione Italiana a Vaopre
1893 Broken up
Comments: 75 x 1st, 52 x 2nd and 750 x steerage (emigrant) class passengers
The route was Genoa - Gibraltar - Cadiz - St Vincent (for coal only) -
Montevideo - Buenos Aires
Sometimes bringing cereals from Rosario, back on the return voyages
1883: Following the sinking of NORD AMERICA the Lavarello company
collapsed and the ships were sold
1884: Matteo Bruzzo also got into financial difficulties and the ship was sold