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Name: SARPEDON
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 28/07/1877
Completed: 1877
Builder: Andrew Leslie & Co
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 180
Dimensions: 2036grt, 1592nrt, 310.0 x 34.2 x 25.3ft
Engines: C2cyl (27 & 58 x 45ins), 250nhp
Engines by: R Stephenson & Co, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 76533
History:
1877 Ocean Steam Ship Co, Liverpool
1891 NV Nederlandsche Stoomv Mij "Oceaan", Amsterdam
1894 Gomei Kaisha Umuera Tasaka Kwaisoten, Tokyo
1894 Renamed TAMAHIME MARU
04/10/1896 Wrecked
Comments: 04/10/1896: Wrecked at Naoyetsu on the west coast of Japan