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Name: WISCONSIN
Type: Passenger Ship
Launched: 19/03/1870
Completed: 06/1870
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 248
Dimensions: 3220grt, 2060nrt, 366.0 x 43.2 x 26.6ft
Engines: C2cyl (60 & 120 x 42ins), 600hp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 63266
History:
07/06/1870 Liverpool & Great Western Steamship Co Ltd, Liverpool
06/1893 Broken up
Comments: Build for the Guion Line's service between Liverpool & New York
Accommodation for 100 x 1st Class passengers & 1500 x Emigrants
06/1893: Broken up on Tranmere Beach


Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 21/03/1870