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Name: PRINCIPE TOMASO
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 17/10/1864
Completed: 1864
Builder: Palmer Bros & Co
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 158
Dimensions: 837grt, 586nrt, 251.2 x 28.3 x 17.7ft; (1876: 882grt, 496nrt, 250.8 x 28.2 x 17.6ft)
Engines: 2cyl (54 & 54 x 33ins), 270hp; (1874: CI2cyl (33 & 66 x 33ins), 180hp);
(1887: T3cyl (21.5, 36 & 58 x 36ins), 202nhp, 1200ihp)
Engines by: Palmer Bros & Co, Jarrow; (1874: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co, Jarrow);
(1887: D Rollo & Sons, Liverpool)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 13.0knots
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a; (1876: 70260)
History:
1864 Soc Anon Italiana de Navigazione Adriatic Orient, Ancona
25/08/1876 Charles Mark Palmer, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle
26/08/1876 City of Cork Steam Packet Co Ltd, Cork; renamed SHANDON
26/08/1876 Registered at Cork
1892 Cie des Chargeurs Corse Réunis, Marseilles; renamed BASTIAIS
1893 E Caillol & N Saint-Pierre, Marseilles
1902 E Caillol-Duvillard, Marseilles
1906 Compagnie Méditerranéenne de Navigation, Marseille
1908 Broken up
Comments: 1874: Engine compounded
1887: Re-engined
1908: Broken up at Marseilles


Above photo as BASTIAIS is courtesy of David Asprey