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Name: FIFESHIRE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 28/07/1887
Completed: 09/1887
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 105
Dimensions: 3720grt, 2809nrt, 345.0 x 47.6 x 24.1ft
Engines: T3cyl (27, 44 & 71.5 x 48ins), 429nhp
Engines by: Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 95010
History:
09/1887 Elderslie Steam Ship Co Ltd (Turnbull, Martin & Co), Glasgow
1898 Duke of Fife Steamship Co Ltd (JB Westray & Co), Glasgow;
1898 Renamed DUKE OF FIFE
1903 Morioka Makoto, Uraga; renamed ITSUKUSHIMA MARU
1912 M Ojiro, Kobe
1918 Yamashita Kisen KK, Kobe
1921 Shimizu Kisen KK, Higshitomita
1924 Kuhara Kogyo KK, Amino
1927 Nippon Kosen Gyogyo KK, Kobe
1932 Nippon Godo Kosen KK, Habu
1933 Broken up
Comments: 1933: Broken up in Japan