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Name: MEATH
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 24/05/1879
Completed: 07/1879
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 389
Dimensions: 2047grt, 1337nrt, 280.0 x 35.3 x 24.5ft; (1889: 2294grt, 1482nrt, 316.0 x 35.3 x 24.5ft)
Engines: C2cyl (33 & 64 x 42ins), 200nhp;
(1889: Q4cyl (13.75, 23.5, 33 & 64.25 x 42ins), 250nhp);
(1897: T3cyl (20, 33 & 64.25 x 42ins), 293nhp)
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow;
(1889: W Allan & Co, Sunderland);
(1897: G Clark Ltd, Sunderland)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 81457
History:
25/07/1879 Ralph M Hudson, Sunderland
1886 Ralph M Hudson & Son, Sunderland
1902 Noel Dubisson, Dunkerque; renamed RENÉ
25/09/1903 Abandoned
Comments: 1889: Lengthened to 316.0ft, then 2294grt
1889: Engine quadrupled
1997: Engine reduced to a triple expansion
25/09/1903: Abandoned 150 miles NWxN of Ferrol in the Bay of Biscay
On a voyage from Rouen to Oran carrying general cargo


Shields Daily Gazette, Tuesday, 27/05/1879