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Name: BASINGSTOKE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 23/09/1865
Completed: 12/1865
Builder: Bainbridge, Davy & Hopper
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 4
Dimensions: 649grt, 520nrt, 206.5 x 27.0 x 15.8ft; (1867: 201.5 x 27.2 x 15.8ft)
(1870: 649grt, 441nrt); (1873: 660grt, 419nrt)
Engines: 2cyl (36 & 36 x 26ins), 80nhp; (1872: CI2cyl (24 & 42 x 30ins), 80nhp)
Engines by: Robert Morrison & Co, Ouseburn Engine Works; (1872: J Stewart, London)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 53208
History:
05/12/1865 J Robert Ekless, Southampton; registered at South Shields
1866 Registered at Southampton
1867 Southampton Steam Collier & Coal Co Ltd, Southampton
1874 Companhia Thetis, Oporto, Portugal; renamed RIO TEJO
1898 H Duquenne & G Albrecht, Antwerp; renamed LEGIA
13/04/1902 Sank
Comments: 13/04/1902: Sank after a collision with JULIO off the Newarp Light Vessel
On a voyage from Tonnay Charente to West Hartlepool with a cargo of pyrites