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Name: EXPRESS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 02/1869
Completed: 03/1869
Builder: Readhead, Softley & Co
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 42
Dimensions: 121grt, 24nrt, 102.6 x 18.8 x 10.5ft; (1882: 227grt, 115nrt, 138.1 x 19.1 x 10.2ft)
Engines: 2cyl (24 & 24 x 24ins), 50hp; (1875: C2cyl (18 & 34.5 x 22ins), 50hp)
Engines by: Readhead, Softley & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 62206
History:
1869 George Robertson, Kirkwall
by 1900 Samuel Reid Jnr, Kirkwall
04/04/1917 Sank
Comments: 1875: Engine compounded by Readhead, Softley & Co
1882: Lengthened
04/04/1917: Sank in a collision off France