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Name: CAMBYSES
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1848
Completed: 09/1848
Builder: Thomas Young & Son
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 254nrt, 94.4 x 24.8 x 16.2ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Snow; (1857: Rigged as a Brig)
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 24430
History:
15/09/1848 Robert Morrison, South Shields
08/06/1857 John Snowdon & Henry Lee, South Shields
29/06/1859 Donald MacKenzie, Stornaway
30/03/1860 Registered at Stornaway
by 1867 JG Widdicombe, Liverpool
by 1870 GR Sheraton, Liverpool
10/08/1870 Sank
Comments: 25/12/1858: Aground in Castle Bay, Isle of Barra
On a voyage from Kooria Mooria to the UK with a cargo of guano
She lay on her side and was making a lot of water
29/06/1859: Auctioned where she lay
10/08/1870: Foundered 260 miles NxW of the Island of Madeira
On a voyage from Liverpool to Havana