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Name: PLANET
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 29/10/1856
Completed: 12/1856
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 27
Dimensions: 419grt, 262nrt, 178.0 x 24.0 x 14.0ft
Engines: 2cyl; (1872: C2cyl (22.7 & 35.7 x 28ins), 60nhp)
Engines by: Robert Morrison & Co, Newcastle; (1872: Schwaffel & Howaldt, Kiel)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a; (1882: 87025)
History:
12/1856 Schiller Brothers & Co, Hamburg
08/11/1871 HW Lange & Co, Altona
07/12/1872 Gebr Lange, Kiel
14/12/1882 C Thompson, London; registered at London
1884 Jose M de Zulueta, London
1889 David Jones (William Brooks, manager), Newport
1906 J Constant, London
1907 Steamship Planet Co Ltd (Adolphus E Kinnear, manager), London
1909 Empr Caboverdeana de Pescarias Ltda, St Vincent; renamed PESCADOR
No later history known
Comments: 1872: Re-engined by Schwaffel & Howaldt
1911: Deleted from Lloyds Register