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Name: SALISBURY
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 04/07/1878
Completed: 08/1878
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 10
Dimensions: 1977grt, 1278nrt, 287.0 x 34.5 x 24.6ft
Engines: C2cyl (34 & 64 x 42ins), 202nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 79204
History:
22/08/1878 George Cleugh & Co, North Shields
1895 Leonard Macarthy, North Shields
1896 Northumbrian Shipping Corporation (L Macarthy), Newcastle
1900 Mossgiel Steamship Co Ltd (J Bruce & Co), Glasgow
1905 Iberian Steamship Co Ltd (JH Wackerbath & Co), Liverpool; renamed ANDALUSIA
1907 Managers became Whimster & Co, Liverpool
13/04/1907 Sank
Comments: 13/04/1907: Foundered in the Bay of Biscay
On a voyage from Swansea to Barcelona with a cargo of coal & patent fuel