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Name: SWAN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 04/03/1867
Completed: 1867
Builder: C Mitchell & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 151
Dimensions: 753grt, 560nrt, 204.7 x 28.2 x 16.2ft
Engines: 2cyl (38 & 38 x 30ins), 90hp; (1875: C2cyl (25 & 50 x 30ins), 105hp)
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle; (1875: Forrester & Co, Liverpool)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 56061
History:
1867 Henry F Swan; registered at Newcastle
1868 Arthur Cox Pring, Newcastle
1874 John Ellis; registered at Liverpool
1890 Ferdinand Honey & Alfred Read, Liverpool
1891 Alfred Read, Liverpool
1898 Cuthbert Wilkinson; registered at Sunderland
No later history known
Comments: 1912: Register closed