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Name: SWORDSMAN
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 06/09/1880
Completed: 09/1880
Builder: T & W Smith
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 71
Dimensions: 1126grt, 720nrt, 215.0 x 32.0 x 16.4ft
Engines: C2cyl (25 & 49 x 36ins), 120nhp
Engines by: Black, Hawthorn & Co, Gateshead
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 53537 (from 1893)
History:
09/1880 The Sultan of Zanzibar, Zanzibar
1893 Visram, Ebrahim & Co, Bombay
04/09/1893 Sank
Comments: 04/09/1893: Sank after a collision with ss GELDERLAND in the
Indian Ocean on a voyage from Bombay to Mauritius