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Name: TRADER
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 27/08/1904
Completed: 09/1904
Builder: Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd
Yard: Bill Quay
Yard Number: 121
Dimensions: 270grt, 84nrt, 125.0 x 22.6 x 9.0ft; (1913: 274grt, 105nrt)
Engines: C2cyl (16 & 32 x 24ins), 52nhp; (1913: 43nhp)
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 118642
History:
09/1904 T Thompson & Son, Newcastle
by 1907 "T" Steam Coasters Ltd, Newcastle
by 1913 British Australian Timber Co Ltd, London
1913 Registered at Syndney NSW; renamed THE BAT
by 1927 Government of New South Wales (State Metal Quarries); renamed KEMBLA
1935 Broken up
Comments: 1935: Dismantled & sunk


Above photo as TRADER courtesy of Clive Ketley

Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 29/08/1904