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Name: PROPELLER
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 21/12/1854
Completed: 03/1855
Builder: TD Marshall
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 48
Dimensions: 728grt, 495nrt, 188.0 x 27.7 x 16.5ft; (1861: 617grt, 458nrt, 561dwt)
Engines: 2cyl (42 & 42 x 33ins), 120nhp; (1873: C2cyl (26 & 48 x 30ins), 95nhp
Engines by: TD Marshall, South Shields; (1873: Humphreys & Pearson, Hull)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 5505; (1864: 47924)
History:
07/03/1855 North of Europe Steam Navigation Co, London, (WS Andrews, manager)
26/02/1861 HJ Perlbach & Co, Hamburg; renamed ROLAND
14/03/1864 Lawson, Hull; renamed HERO
1865 HJ Perlbach & Co, Hamburg; renamed ROLAND
1899 A Kirsten, Hamburg
1904 Broken up
Comments: Accommodation for 60 x 1st Class passengers
14/03/1864: Renamed & registered at Hull to avoid capture by Danish warships
The Second Schleswig War had broken out between Germany and Denmark
1873: Re-engined by Humphreys & Pearson, Hull
1904: Sold for breaking up at Hamburg by RH Neugebauer
21/10/1905: Registered as breaking up completed


The Artizan, September 1855