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Name: KNIGHT BACHELOR
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 22/02/1868
Completed: 03/1868
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 224
Dimensions: 1405grt, 221.6 x 36.1 x 24.7ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Ship
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 56924
History:
26/03/1868 Carlyle & Co, London
1870 Unknown owner, Overseas
1870 British Shipowner's Co Ltd, Liverpool; renamed BRITISH COMMODORE
1882 Samuel Parry, Liverpool
1890 Robert Hughes-Jones, Liverpool
1893 "British Commodore" Co Ltd (Robert Hughes-Jones), Liverpool
1898 Unknown Owner, Chile
No later history known
Comments: 1898: Register closed
4Q/1998: Reported to be hulked at Punta Arenas in Chile


Above photo as BRITISH COMMODORE is copyright of the AD Edwardes Collection