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Name: VERDI
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 26/09/1879
Completed: 11/1879
Builder: John Readhead & Co
Yard: Lawe Yard, South Shields
Yard Number: 153
Dimensions: 753grt, 479nrt, 205.2 x 29.9 x 15.0ft
Engines: C2cyl (25 & 48 x 33ins), 95nhp
Engines by: John Readhead & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 81968
History:
22/11/1879 John Wilson, North Shields; registered at South Shields
1881 Stephens, Mawson & Goss, Newport
16/12/1881 Wrecked
Comments: 16/12/1881: Wrecked at Dunraven Cliff, 10 miles east of Porthcawl
On a voyage from Bilbao to Newport with a cargo of iron ore