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Name: OPTIMA
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 12/10/1867
Completed: 10/1867
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 222
Dimensions: 499grt, 153.6 x 28.4 x 17.4ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Barque
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 56869
History:
14/10/1867 Cuthbert Hutchinson, Whitburn; registered at London
10/04/1870  Sank
Comments: 06/04/1870: Sank after a collision with VILLE DE HAVRE off Cape Doro
On a voyage from Shields to Odessa with a cargo of coal


Shields Daily Gazette, Wednesday, 27/04/1870