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Name: POINT PLEASANT
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 23/06/1884
Completed: 08/1884
Builder: T & W Toward & Co
Yard: Low Benwell, Newcastle
Yard Number: 7
Dimensions: 252grt, 149nrt, 125.5 x 21.0 x 10.5ft
Engines: C2cyl (16 & 30 x 20ins), 40nhp
Engines by: Blair & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 91042
History:
28/08/1884 Barclay & Collinson, Newcastle
1887 Henry Burton, Newport, Gwent; renamed MAVIS
1889 FG Reinhold, Danzig; renamed DESI
1892 EH Kongshavn, Haugesund; renamed NORDSTJERNEN
1911 N Antufleff, Archangel; renamed AVANCE
1916 Imperial Russian Navy; renamed OLEN
1917 Sunk
Comments: Engines were manufactured in 1878
1915: Used as Russian naval minesweeper NO 9
1917: Sunk in the White Sea after a collision


Newcastle Journal, Wednesday, 25/06/1884