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Name: HOOPER
Type: Cable Ship
Launched: 29/03/1873
Completed: 05/1873
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 288
Dimensions: 4935grt, 3724nrt, 338.2 x 55.0 x 34.6ft; (1916: 5046grt)
Engines: C2cyl (52 & 92 x 48ins), 468nhp
Engines by: T Clark & Co, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 68421
History:
26/05/1873 Hooper's Telegraph Works Ltd, London
1882 India Rubber, Gutta Percha & Telegraph Works Co, London
1882 Renamed SILVERTOWN
1916 Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd, London
1924 Cie Venture-Weir Soc Anon, Algiers; renamed FRANCUNION II
1935 Broken up
Comments: 1916: Converted to a tanker with cylindrical tanks in hold, then 5046 grt
1920: Used as a bunkering hulk at Southampton
1924: Used as a fuel supply ship at Algiers
1935: Broken up in Italy


Above painting as HOOPER is copyright of John Scott

Above photo as SILVERTOWN is copyright of FC Gould

Above photo as SILVERTOWN is courtesy of Archer Philip Crouch

Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 31/03/1873