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Name: NO 1 or NUMBER ONE
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 15/08/1863
Completed: 1863
Builder: Palmer Bros & Co
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 129
Dimensions: 730grt, 567nrt, 200.7 x 28.1 x 16.7ft
Engines: Steam, 150hp
Engines by: Palmer Bros & Co, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, also rigged as a Barque
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1863 Government of Japan
08/02/1864 Registered at Rotterdam
1864 Renamed HOZUI MARU
1881 Tadayoshi Shimazu, Kagoshima
1891 Tatsuzo Fukuzawa, Tokyo
1894 Kensuke Yama, Kobe
13/06/1896 Sank
Comments: 08/02/1864: Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij acted as agents
13/06/1896: Sank after a collision with KONOURA MARU off Hiroshima
178 lives were lost in the accident


Newcastle Courant, Friday, 21/08/1863