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Name: TREDEGAR
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 13/10/1881
Completed: 11/1881
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 455
Dimensions: 1343grt, 843nrt, 240.4 x 33.3 x 16.5ft
Engines: C2cyl (30 & 57 x 36ins), 99nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 84667
History:
16/11/1881 Tredegar SS Co Ltd (Morel Brothers & Co), Cardiff
1895 Managers became Morel Ltd, Cardiff
1907 Urtiaga & Castillo, Bilbao; renamed CRESALUBI
1912 Saracho & Menchaca, Bilbao
12/03/1921 Wrecked
Comments: 12/03/1921: Wrecked on Oporto Bar when inward from Cardiff with coal


Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 14/10/1881