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Name: W J TAYLOR
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 07/1872
Completed: 1872
Builder: CW Dodgin & Co
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 129grt, 88nrt, 82.1 x 20.0 x 10.6ft; (1878: 294grt, 159nrt)
Engines: I2cyl (16.5 & 16.5 x 18ins), 20hp; (by 1890: C2cyl (13.5 & 26.75 x 18ins), 35hp
Engines by: Wilson & Hall, Dunston; (by 1890: Moller & Holberg, Stettin)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1872 Franz Erpenbeck, Beckman & Co, Papenburg
1875 Hermann Beckmann, Papenburg
1876 Eduard Haubuss, Stettin
1878 Renamed LIBAU PACKET
22/08/1901 Abandoned
Comments: Re-engined at some date before 1890
22/08/1901: Abandoned in the Baltic Sea
Subsequently wrecked between Rossitten & Sakau on the Baltic coast
On a voyage from Memel to Stettin carrying general cargo